... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...m the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PC... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...ds I discussed, there is also a core similarity—the attempt to use a legally created privilege to solve a potential “public goods problem.” That simil... ...ps you want to adapt the nifty graphics that a high school teacher in Hawaii created Chapter 1 14 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM ... ...h Profes- sional Edition”? We can certainly imagine such a way of organizing languages. (To some extent, scribal conventions operated this way. The la... ...r the replication of genetic information. They subvert their hosts’ cellular programming to make copies of themselves, just as a computer virus hijack... ... to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all the bugs, documenting his product and dis- tribut... ...obert C. Allen, Enclosure and the Yeoman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). In the twentieth century, the negative effects of open access or c...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those 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,...