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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...McPherson, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale Uni... ...son, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale Universit... ... book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version o... ... 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... ...the end. As I pointed out in the last chapter, the copyright term in most of Europe and in the United States now lasts for the life of the author and ... ...tal Millennium Copy- right Act, to trademark “anti-dilution” rulings, to the European Database Protection Directive. 18 The old limits to intellectual... ... 676 (S.D.N.Y. 1939); Houghton Mifflin Co. v. Stackpole Sons, Inc., 104 F .2d 306 (2nd Cir. 1939) (upholding the validity of the U.S. copyright in Mein... ....D.N.Y. 1939), 276n7. Houghton Mifflin Co. v. Stackpole Sons, Inc., 104 F .2d 306 (2d Cir. 1939), 276n7. Howkins, John, x. Hubbard, Tim, 243–244, 295n1...

...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,...

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