...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... ...e The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Pag... ... 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... ...–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 __... ... your cultural and innovation needs? If people need Madame Bovary or The New York Times or a new kind of an- tibiotic, surely the market will provide ... ...nguage, to facts, to business methods and scientific algorithms, to the basic structures of music, to art whose creators are long dead. It is obvious t... ...e been such a recent arrival, as if someone suggested that all the roads and buildings around you had arrived in the last fifteen years. Some of you ma... ...eged authors with perpetual private lineages for their texts, the Revolution relocated these figures in the public domain, the legal parallel to the ci...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all 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 th...