"David Bollier, a Fellow at the New America Foundation, is author of a paper called "Can the Information Commons be Saved? How Intellectual Property Policies are Eroding Democratic Culture & Some Strategies for Asserting the Public Interest." It examines the paradox of the Internet age -- unprecedented access to information and the simultaneous convergence of "commercial forces ... to make information more scarce, or at least more expensive and amenable to strict market control." [A] shrinking information commons should be of critical concern to the creative sector where a vibrant public domain and viable fair use provisions are essential to the sector's health."