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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...nformation, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work avail... ...grees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of the h... ... for PLoS Biology with Arti Rai, “Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons.” 2 For several years now I ha... ...med citizen needs to know at least something about the environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair, to e... ...an enemy of intellectual property, a dot-communist ready to end all property rights; in fact, I am a fan. It is precisely because I am a fan that I am... ...opposite, its outside, is getting short shrift. To paraphrase a song from my youth, “how did we get here?” Where should we turn to understand the role... ...e first chapter. Software costs money to create, but is cheap to copy. When a youthful The Enclosure of Science and Technology 163 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372...

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