...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... ...van book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online versio... ...e of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u00.qxd ... ... she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and hav... ...as, which “like fire” are “expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point.” What were the concerns of these early critics? The... ...ly made available worldwide. Mirror sites provided copies of the program and lists of such locations were easy to find using standard search tools. One... ...fferent kinds of disease. In a common source epidemic, as where members of a population contract a non-contagious disease from a poisoned well, the di... ... of pub- lished records showed nothing. Inquiries to various music librarian listservs also produced no answer. There was a man called Harold Bailey, ... ... it that is still commercially available—they are spread out over the entire population, while the benefits accrue to a small group of commercial entit...

...e 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 fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why...