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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...van book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online versio... ...e of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u00.qxd ... ...ple to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments look haiku-terse by comparison. Here I can mention only a few. I beg pardon for the inevit... ...embrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person who most influenced it... ...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...art to the prescient analysis and remarkable energy of one of my colleagues, Peter Jaszi. 11 Together with Pamela Samuelson, Jessica Litman, and a num... ...muelson, Jessica Litman, and a number of other distinguished legal scholars, Peter turned his considerable intellectual talents to explaining why writ...

...s 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 gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it ...

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