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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ess Control Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO ... ...4 AM Page vi Acknowledgments ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 The ideas for this book come from the theoretical and practical work I have been doing for the last te... ...le theoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied e... ...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... ...hat a series of rapid improvisations by courts, scientists, programmers, and businesspeople has largely mitigated any prob- lems caused by the process... ...stem and offer information or products to the world. Another group—scholars, businesspeople, bureaucrats—points out the problems. Anyone could connect...

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