.../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 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... ...Department be able to patent the genes of a Guyami Indian woman who shows an unusual resistance to leukemia? 8 What would it mean to patent someone’s ... ...t as “copying”) but the fair use provisions as well. The court took the very unusual step of rehearing the case and amending the opinion, changing it ... ...ing off-the-shelf components whose performance is expressed using stan- dard measurements. This is the dream of one group of synthetic biologists: tha... ...he parts in the Registry are not simply segments of DNA, they are functional units. 9 Using the Registry, a group of MIT scientists organizes an annua... ...ale centralized coordina- tion, the creation process has to be modular, with units of different sizes and complexities, each requiring slightly differ...

...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...