... 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 Press New... ...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 influence... ... my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic world. I owe the biggest debt of grat- itu... ...ast something about the environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair, to explain the issues and give both... ...pical world’s poor. But for a lot of products, in a lot of areas, the market works— and that is a fact not to be taken for granted. Why not use this m... ...ay job and actually make a living from your expressive powers. If the market works, if the middlemen and distributors are smart enough, competitive en... ...s she wanted to use. The official was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a f... ...rticle’s mild criticisms elicited an extraordinary reaction from the Clinton administration’s lead official on intellectual property policy—throwing me... ...e” will also apply to the next video that alleges corruption in a Democratic administration or that attacks the sacred cows of the left rather than th...

...nomic 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 cop...