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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...y in question is precisely the issue in dispute. (When Johansen was tried in Norway under the national computer crime law, the court laconically ob- s... ...e could require renewal every twenty-eight years. (There are in- ternational treaties that currently forbid the latter alternative.) We could cut back... ...etrospective copyright term extensions, database rights, proposed webcasting treaties, busi- ness method patents—do not pass the laugh test, in my vie...

...e 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, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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