.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ... the last ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments lo... ... the word “Olympic” and will not permit gay activists to hold a “Gay Olympic Games.” The Supreme Court sees no First Amendment problem with this. 3 Ma... ...out the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them are even true. The list goes on and on. (By the end of this book, I hope to have convinced y... ... easy to exclude your customers from the help line or technical support. The CD may be copied cheaply; the concert is easy to police. The innovator ma... ...roduce the next beach novel, the next academic monograph, the next teen band CD, the next hundred-million-dollar movie? But this mistakes my suggestio... ...to be owned. The novel Love Story is. It is assumed that I do not need Erich Segal’s copyrighted expression to write my own love story. Even if litera... ...ies of Free Speech and the Press?” UCLA Law Review 17 (1970): 1180–1204. 22. Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F .2d 1510 (9th Cir. 1992); ...

...e ideas that are controlled and those 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 fascinat...