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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...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... ... book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version o... ...Alike 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300... ...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... ...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... ...der the General Public License. From its initial cre- ation by Larry Wall in 1987, Perl has been adapted, modified, and developed by an extraordinary r... ... & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See also James Boyle, Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the ... ...ner, Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars (New York: Norton, 1987). One needs only to scan its pages to pick up the eerie foreshadowin...

...e 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, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why...

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