... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s the emergence of an area of concern, the coming together of very different groups around a shared problem—an imbalance in the rules that define prop-... ...alized network of hob- byists, amateurs, universities, businesses, volunteer groups, professionals, and retired experts and who knows what else. It is... ...rgue that it is not. This pretty much was the law in the United States until 1978. (My system is a little simpler, but the broad strokes are the same.... ... create out of thin air. Perhaps he or she is deeply embedded in a literary, musical, cultural, or scientific tra- dition that would not flourish if tre... ...al process was going to be particularly vulnerable to problems of capture by established industries, many of whom would (rightly) see the Internet as ... ... to use their service! No one is going to sue Apple now, of course. In fact, established players in the marketplace are probably fairly safe (and have...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those 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,...