.../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... ... the last ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments lo... ...out the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them are even true. The list goes on and on. (By the end of this book, I hope to have convinced y... ...that the final arbiter of cul- ture should be the people who watch, read, and listen to it, and who remake it every day. And even if you are dubious ab... ...... ..., many people write free software because they are paid to do so. Amazingly, IBM now earns more from what it calls “Linux-related revenues” than it do... ...“Linux-related revenues” than it does from traditional patent licensing, and IBM is the largest patent holder in the world. 13 It has decided that the...

...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...