(uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
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Copyright, from day one, was designed to be both an impediment and an incentive, a mechanism of enclosure (one that prevented the unlicensed printing of texts, thereby limiting access) and a catalyst of sorts, a structure to stimulate the production of literary goods by rewarding writers and publishers for their labor.
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2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 5, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
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The commons evokes resistance to “enclosure” in all its forms, whether in its early proto-capitalist form of fencing in commonly shared land, or in its contemporary forms of marshalling judicial restraints such as “patent” and “intellectual property” to police the ownership of ideas.
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2019, Robert Stam, World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Mediahttps://books.google.com/books?id=0D6IDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT138&dq=enclosure&hl=es&pg=PT23#v=onepage&q&f=false, Routledge, →ISBN: