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...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... ... 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... ...unias at very close to the cost of growing them and bringing them to market. Consumer desires are satisfied and productive resources are allocated effic... ... sound so good. Patents, by contrast, keep the knowledge public, at least in theory; 3 you must describe it to own it.) And again, decisions about the... ...o the economists, the answer is that trademark law does two things. It saves consumers time. We have good reason to believe that a soap that says “Ivo... ...at quality and commercial information flow regulate themselves, with rational consumers judging among goods of consistent quality produced by manufac- ... ... could turn to the cutting edge of technology or to economics or information theory. But none of those would be as useful a starting place as a letter... ... one of the supporters of copyright extension declared that it was merely “a theory” that monopoly makes things expensive. Macaulay agrees, tongue in ...
...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...