... Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Furt... ...eoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied energy... ...me to many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundl... ... many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundly dis... ...The entire community of librarians de- serves our thanks for standing up for free public access to knowledge for over two hundred years. Librarians ar... ...hem obsolete with word processors, or develop functional voice recog- nition software, or just concentrate on making solar-powered backscratchers? Who... ... cannot imagine free or open-source software being assembled by thousands of programmers worldwide. E-mail is only a dimly understood phenomenon to yo... ... of the DMCA had nothing to do with suppressing particular ideas of computer programmers and everything to do with functionality—with preventing peopl... ...tic. They think that a series of rapid improvisations by courts, scientists, programmers, and businesspeople has largely mitigated any prob- lems caus...

...music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those 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 i...