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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...urplus produced by enclosure helped to save a society devastated by the mass deaths of the sixteenth century. Those who weep over the terrible ef- fec... .... Soon the pasture will be overgrazed and all our flocks will go hungry. In a 1968 article, Garrett Hardin came up with the phrase that would become sh... ...7278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 52 their images should end with their deaths, and that courts would agree that those rights were tightly limite... ...996): 83–94. 11. Garrett Hardin, “The T ragedy of the Commons,” Science 162 (1968): 1243–1248. 12. International News Service v. Associated Press, 248... ...ht in Historical Perspective (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968). The British debates at the time of Macaulay are beautifully captur... ... to the work of Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Com- mons,” Science 162 (1968): 1243–1248. However, work by scholars such as Elinor Ostrom, Gov- e... ...earchID=351. 20. Garrett Hardin, “The T ragedy of the Commons,” Science 162 (1968): 1243–1248. 21. The differences are particularly strong in the argu...

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