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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...McPherson, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale Uni... ... book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version o... ...Alike 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300... ...eoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied energy... ... many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundly dis... ...hem obsolete with word processors, or develop functional voice recog- nition software, or just concentrate on making solar-powered backscratchers? Who... ...movie companies and record companies saw this as a flagrant, for-profit piracy ring. Grokster’s response was that like the makers of the VCR, it was sim... .../lessig.org/blog/2006/01/google_book_search_the_argumen.html. 7. See Barbara Ringer, “Study Number 31: Renewal of Copyright,” reprinted in U.S. Sen- a... ... 280n5, 281n6. Richardson, Samuel, 26–27, 156. Rinaudo, Keller, 175, 285n12. Ringer, Barbara, 9, 253n7. Ritz, David, 127, 279, 280n2, 281n6. Rob, Rafa...

...e 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 fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why...

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