.../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... ...adame Bovary, or the antibiotic, or The New York Times? Well, it depends. If books have to be copied out by hand, then Madame Bovary is just like the ... ...music were a threat to the traditional music business, but digital copies of books? I am skeptical. This book will be freely and legally available onl... ...true copyright statute—was produced partly because of publishers’ fights with booksellers; the authorial right grew as an afterthought. 5 The history o... ...ly made available worldwide. Mirror sites provided copies of the program and lists of such locations were easy to find using standard search tools. One... ... of pub- lished records showed nothing. Inquiries to various music librarian listservs also produced no answer. There was a man called Harold Bailey, ... ...Ugh, governance by food fight.” Anyone who has ever been on an organizational listserv, a global production process run by people who are long on brain...

...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...