The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
by James Boyle
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About This Book
In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence, and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity, and scientific innovation.Boyle...
Chapters (11)
- Chapter 1: Why Intellectual Property 1
- Chapter 2: Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter 1
- Chapter 3: The Second Enclosure Movement 1
- Chapter 4: The Internet Threat 1
- Chapter 5: The Farmers' Tale: An Allegory 1
- Chapter 6: I Got a Mashup 1
- Chapter 7: The Enclosure of Science and Technology: Two Case Studies 1
- Chapter 8: A Creative Commons 1
- Chapter 9: An Evidence-Free Zone 1
- Chapter 10: An Environmentalism for Information 1
- NOTES
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