.../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... ...e Creative Commons staff has made it routine to do seven impossi- ble things before breakfast, it is hard to single out any one individual—but without... ...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... ... fund it, what desires to trade off against each other? The society you have founded normally relies on market signals to allocate resources. If a lot... ...7278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 7 of these concerns are real and well-founded, but I respectfully disagree with the conclusion that we should g... ...than I can hope to in a single chapter. Beyond the scholarly literature, two websites allow you to experiment with these issues online. The History of... ...mons, tragedy of the. T ravis, Hannibal, 44, 45, 265n6, 266n10. trespass, to websites by electronic aggre- gators, 52. T revelyan, George Otto, 256n14...

...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...