...e public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study o... ...fluenced every chapter in this book. David Lange brought me to Duke. His work on the public domain has always been an inspi- ration to mine. Arti Rai’s... ... 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page vii spirited and cosmopolitan focus on the multiple ways in which property can be protected. Jed Purdy and Ne... ...emand new legal protections aimed at producing that result. “What’s good for agriculture is good for the nation,” they say. But now comes the second t... ...s a nice extra rev- enue stream which will, the farmers say, “help encourage agriculture.” After all, more fences mean more money for farmers, and mor... ...heorizing that this new automobile technology presents “a terrible threat to agriculture, because of Chapter 5 84 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/... ...y puts it this way on its Web site: “Q. Under the terms of the CSS licensing agreement, is it legal for a licensed manufacturer to produce and sell a ... ...trade secrets, use my monopoly position in the market to impose resale price agreements, or violate your patent? It is the law that draws the line bet... ...h a host of overbroad software patents, gene patents, and materials transfer agreements. Others are more optimistic. They think that a series of rapid...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our 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...