.../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... ... 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... ...a result, the structure of the book is designed to facilitate self-selection based on inter- est. The first three chapters and the conclusion provide t... ...nited States, does not see intellectual property as a claim of natural right based on expended labor. Instead it is a temporary state-created monopoly... ...r daily actions you scrupulously ob- served the rights—all the rights—of the companies that have interests in the texts, tunes, images of celebrities,... ...uld be made, but subsequent changes would be harder and harder as people and companies built their activities around the rules that had been laid down... ...ly made available worldwide. Mirror sites provided copies of the program and lists of such locations were easy to find using standard search tools. One... ... of pub- lished records showed nothing. Inquiries to various music librarian listservs also produced no answer. There was a man called Harold Bailey, ...

...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,...