... 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... ...nce Commons and ccLearn are divisions of Creative Com- mons that I helped to set up which concentrate on the sciences and on educa- tion, respectively... ...ugh they should not be). But at the heart of intellectual property law are a set of ideas that a ten-year-old can understand perfectly well. (While wr... ...Commerce Department be able to patent the genes of a Guyami Indian woman who shows an unusual resistance to leukemia? 8 What would it mean to patent s... ...ness plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and then licensing them to television stations. VCRs and Betamaxes fit nowhere in this plan; they wer... ...nt that it was a “fair use” under U.S. copyright law for consumers to record television programs for time-shifting purposes. Since fair The Internet T... ...de- compilation of computer programs, and so on. (Though as the next chapter shows, a number of recent legal changes mean that the practical ability t... ...living in Denver to see the mountains again. Similarly, the people living in Los An- geles had a desire to see one another.” Funnily enough, as with i...

...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,...