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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ingle out any one individual—but without Glenn Brown at Creative Commons and John Wilbanks at Science Commons, neither organization would exist today.... ...ave—Drew Endy and Randy Rettberg in synthetic biol- ogy, Nobel laureates Sir John Sulston and Harold Varmus in genomics and biology more generally, Pa... ...with Manon Ress, Fred von Lohmann, Cindy Cohn, Jason Schultz, and Gigi Sohn. John Howkins and Gilberto Gil have provided considerable leadership inter... ... would last many years after the author’s death: I will take an example. Dr. Johnson died fifty-six years ago. If the law were what my honourable and l... ...rned friend wishes to make it, somebody would now have the mo- nopoly of Dr. Johnson’s works. Who that somebody would be it is impossible to say; but ... ... some fragments of a popular video by Jib- Jab, which had a cartoon Bush and Kerry singing dueling parodied versions of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land.” W...

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