.../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... ... 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Index, 297 v 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page v -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___... ...ation commons at the very moment in history when we need them most. Academic articles and clever legal briefs cannot solve this problem alone. Instead... ...ntrol consumers, an attempt which should be a valid target for legal reverse engineering. He has a point. There were indeed other ways to copy DVDs wh... ... 168 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 168 tific and engineering innovation. The formulae, algorithms, and scientific dis- cove... ...ized and as well understood as valves, screws, capacitors, or resistors. The electrical engineer told to build a circuit does not go out and invent he... ...g, with biological black boxes that perform all of the standard functions of electrical or mechanical engineering—measuring flow, reacting to a high si... ...IT Registry of Standard Biological Parts supports this goal by recording and indexing biological parts that are currently being built and offering syn...

...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...

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...intellectual capital.A university cul- ture with its versions of books and articles was giving way to the culture of the newsroom. During the 1990s, t... ...Bin Ladin operative known as Abu Hafs the Mauri- tanian—who appeared to be engineering some of the plots—or in Kandahar, to capture Bin Ladin himself.... ...brother, another future al Qaeda member. KSM earned a degree in mechanical engineering in December 1986. 3 Although he apparently did not attract atte... ...zen in the group. Educated in Morocco, Bahaji returned to Germany to study electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. He s... ...occan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at the T echnical University .A witness has recalled... ...7/04 4:14 PM Page 387 identifiers—digital photographs and prints of two index fingers—from travel- ers. False identities are used by terrorists to ... ...o and Firearms,” undated (online at www.atf.gov/pub/gen_pub/annualrpt/1995/index.htm); ATF report,“ATF Snapshot,” Jan. 30, 1998 (online at www.atf.gov...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...