... 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... ...rsuade you that our intellectual property policy is going the wrong way; two roads are diverging and we are on the one that doesn’t lead to Rome. The ... ...that you did not believe you were violating copyright, or that you did so by accident, or in the belief that no one would care, and that your actions ... .... National and international policy makers are keen to set the “rules of the road for the digital age.” If they would momen- tarily pause their excite... ...urplus produced by enclosure helped to save a society devastated by the mass deaths of the sixteenth century. Those who weep over the terrible ef- fec... ...y the footsteps of individuals. It was reserved for bigger game. This was no accident. The law of intellectual property placed its triggers at the poi... ...7278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 52 their images should end with their deaths, and that courts would agree that those rights were tightly limite... ...ntellectual Property Law Affects Musi- cal Creativity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), provides a more comprehensive coverage than I can h...

...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,...