...ugust 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 University Pres... .../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... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ... Where should we turn to understand the role of intellectual property in the era of the Internet and the decoding of the human genome? We could turn t... ... rape, stores being broken into with impunity, rescue helicopters fired upon, women and children sexually assaulted in the convention center where many... ...stifying ecstatically to the virtues of Charles’s lady friend. Charles liked women—a lot of women, according to his biographers— and a lot of women li... ... private property. And, like the break- ing of a minor taboo that presages a Victorian literary character’s slide into debauchery, once that first wall... ...eautifully captured in Catherine Seville, Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copy- right Act (Cambridge, U....

... economic welfare all 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...