... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...ized for the tenth anniversary of that article. Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bel... ...ite? The answer to all of these questions is “not exactly.” Like most social institutions, intellectual property has an altogether messier and more in... ...ual meeting of the Kongress deutscher Volkswirthe held in Dresden, September 1863, the following resolution was adopted “by an overwhelming major- ity... ...ax” on rights holders and a “subsidy” to those who benefited from it, such as educational institutions. 4 The White Paper also suggested that while any... ...al process was going to be particularly vulnerable to problems of capture by established industries, many of whom would (rightly) see the Internet as ... ...e, including whether such use is of a com- mercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amo... ... to use their service! No one is going to sue Apple now, of course. In fact, established players in the marketplace are probably fairly safe (and have...

...ll 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 copyright, patent,...