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... copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today's policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its...

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...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...ovement I describe at the end of this book. Jamie Love has touched, sparked, or masterminded almost every benign Acknowledgments ix ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 3... ...he environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair, to explain the issues and give both sides of the argumen... ...t darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of hi... ...ruling sounded reasonable and clear, something that would only strike at bad actors while paying heed to the Sony Axiom and the assurance of safety th... ...erty has been stretched into an attempt to regulate technology so as to pick winners in the marketplace, enriching the farmers at the expense of consu... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ...om a monopolist’s point of view, the handcuffs of network effects are indeed golden, though opinions differ about whether or not this is a cause for a... ...d. To appropriate a phrase from Carol Rose, open source teaches us about the comedy of the commons, a way of arranging markets and production that we,...