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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...e The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Pag... ...ess Control Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO ... ...4 AM Page vi Acknowledgments ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 The ideas for this book come from the theoretical and practical work I have been doing for the last te... ...le theoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied e... ...” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their ... ...cases it effectively removes the privilege of fair use. Each day brings some new Internet horror story about the excesses of intel- lectual property. ... ...re—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to t... ...east till he figures out how to get his own shit together. T oday I hear some singers who I think sound like me. Joe Cocker, for instance. Man, I know ... ...ms that there was a different source, a mysterious song by the Bailey Gospel Singers, or the Harold Bailey Gospel Singers, called “I’ve Got a Savior.”...

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