.../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... ... 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... ...mley, Terry Fisher, Justin Hughes, Neil Netanel, Wendy Gordon, David Nimmer, Tyler Ochoa, Tim Wu, and many others have all taught me things I needed t... ...his book. Michael suggested valuable edits—though I did not always lis- ten. Historical work by Carla Hesse, Martha Woodmansee, and Mark Rose Acknowle... ...astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The... ...sible. Yale University Press were sup- portive and critical in all the right places. I would like to thank them for agreeing to release this work unde... ...at are not renewed fall immediately into the public domain. If you check the register after twenty-eight years and the work has not been re- newed, it... ...mation, checked as many entries as possible, adding addresses to some of the listings, and published the com- bined result. Rural sued and lost. The S... ...nmental welfare economics were important, but one cannot merely write A Sand County Almanac and hope the world will change. Environmen- talists piggyb...

...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,...