.../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... ... 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Index, 297 v 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page v -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___... ...ation commons at the very moment in history when we need them most. Academic articles and clever legal briefs cannot solve this problem alone. Instead... ... safely take it for granted that the effect of monopoly generally is to make articles scarce, to make them dear, and to make them bad. And I may with ... ...IT Registry of Standard Biological Parts supports this goal by recording and indexing biological parts that are currently being built and offering syn... ...l property rights were simply irrelevant—much of the information sharing and indexing on the Web falls within this category. In some cases they were u... ... still compensating musicians. His responses to the problems of measurement, gaming of the system, privacy, and so on will not convince everyone but t...

...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...