Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain
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Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain is a comic book that explains copyright, fair use, and the public domain through the story of documentary filmmakers navigating legal restrictions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6451257 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain Context triple: [James Boyle, notableWork, Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain]
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A.
Light and Law
Light and Law is the English motto of the University of North Dakota, expressing its commitment to knowledge and justice.
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B.
Copyright: Cases and Materials
"Copyright: Cases and Materials" is a leading law school casebook on U.S. copyright law, co-authored by Jane C. Ginsburg and widely used for teaching and scholarly reference.
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C.
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property is an academic center focused on the intersection of intellectual property law, information policy, and social justice.
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D.
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is a seminal book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that explores how software code functions as a form of regulation shaping behavior and governance in the digital world.
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E.
Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks
"Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks" is an essay by Richard Stallman examining how digital technology and global networks challenge traditional copyright regimes and affect users' freedoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain Target entity description: Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain is a comic book that explains copyright, fair use, and the public domain through the story of documentary filmmakers navigating legal restrictions.
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A.
Light and Law
Light and Law is the English motto of the University of North Dakota, expressing its commitment to knowledge and justice.
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B.
Copyright: Cases and Materials
"Copyright: Cases and Materials" is a leading law school casebook on U.S. copyright law, co-authored by Jane C. Ginsburg and widely used for teaching and scholarly reference.
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C.
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property is an academic center focused on the intersection of intellectual property law, information policy, and social justice.
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D.
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is a seminal book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that explores how software code functions as a form of regulation shaping behavior and governance in the digital world.
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E.
Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks
"Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks" is an essay by Richard Stallman examining how digital technology and global networks challenge traditional copyright regimes and affect users' freedoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book
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educational work ⓘ non-fiction comic ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bound by Law? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author |
James Boyle
NERFINISHED
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Jennifer Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Aoki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationalDiscipline |
intellectual property
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law ⓘ media studies ⓘ |
| educationalFocus |
U.S. copyright law
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limitations and exceptions to copyright ⓘ rights of documentary filmmakers ⓘ |
| educationalUse |
teaching copyright
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teaching fair use ⓘ teaching public domain concepts ⓘ |
| format | graphic novel ⓘ |
| genre |
educational comic
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legal comic ⓘ |
| hasPart |
discussion of permissions and licensing
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discussion of public domain works ⓘ examples of documentary film clearance issues ⓘ explanations of fair use doctrine ⓘ |
| illustrator | Keith Aoki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfSeries | public domain educational comics by Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | Creative Commons license NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
copyright law
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documentary filmmaking ⓘ fair use ⓘ public domain ⓘ |
| medium |
digital
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | fictional documentary filmmaker protagonist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| publisher | Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| targetAudience |
educators
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filmmakers ⓘ general public ⓘ students ⓘ |
| theme |
access to culture
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impact of copyright on documentary film ⓘ tension between creativity and legal restrictions ⓘ |
| title | Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain Description of subject: Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain is a comic book that explains copyright, fair use, and the public domain through the story of documentary filmmakers navigating legal restrictions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.