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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...McPherson, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale Uni... ...son, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale Universit... ... book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version o... ... For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this... ...ary university I have ever encountered and so the obligations flow beyond the law school. Professor Anthony Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educ... ...enomics, and my wife Lauren Dame, as- sociate director of the Genome Ethics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sci... ...replicated, because the music has all kinds of overtones from the historical equipment used and even the methods of recording. Fundamentally, though, ... ...t gets its breathing room, not from legal exceptions, but from technological enforcement difficulties. Finally, as more and more people can create and ... ...dows. Perhaps. Or perhaps it also takes the con- sistent threat of antitrust enforcement. In any event, whether or not we hit the optimal point in pro...

...e that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why...

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