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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../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... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ... Benkler have each given far more than they received from me in the “sharing economyof scholarship. If the ideas I de- scribe here have a future, it... ...For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their orig... ...ow at least something about the environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair, to explain the issues and g... ...mpa- nies and other governments are taking it seriously, then so must we.” 7 Sweden found open source software to be in many cases “equivalent to—or b...

...e 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, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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