By James Burke on
10 March 2009 22:02
This evening I listened in to the RSA Event - The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind delivered by Professor James Boyle. In his new book The Public Domain, Professor James Boyle describes how our culture, science and economic welfare all depend on the delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain —the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee.