... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...famous Bruges wool market and had been involved in a number of diplomatic missions for England‘s King Edward IV. In his mid-forties, he left the w... ...e English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and n... ... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...hmus on his way west, Darius had to detour around South America to get to California. There, he was so successful selling supplies to gold miners an...

...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...famous Bruges wool market and had been involved in a number of diplomatic missions for England‘s King Edward IV. In his mid-forties, he left the woo... ...the English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and non... ... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...hmus on his way west, Darius had to detour around South America to get to California. There, he was so successful selling supplies to gold miners an...

...irst Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

... 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... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...nclosure. Law students across America read Moore v. Regents of University of California, a California Supreme Court case deciding that Mr. Moore had n... ...of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which hears cases in an area that includes California and thus has decided a lot of copyright cases over the years. ... ...a bizarre feud by the statement Apple issued, one strangely at odds with the Californian Zen-chic the company normally proj- ects. “We are stunned tha... ...derivative work out of “My Life.” The person who translated my articles into Spanish or Mandarin, or the people who re- post them on their Web sites, ... ...talism presents us with a remarkable diversity of organization- al forms and missions. We have Greenpeace, the Environmental Legal Defense Fund, group...

...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,...