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.
This evening I listened in to the RSA Event - The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind delivered by Professor James Boyle whilst my colleague Joscelyn luckily got to attend and talk with James and the chair Bill Thompson.
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.
The book is available on Amazon in addition to being available as a free download. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License and a Scribd version of the book is also embedded below.
A summary of the talk was live blogged and posted by @macsithigh and an .mp3 version will be available via the RSA Events RSS feed
- video to follow licenced under CC – all definitely worth a read, listen and watch. [update 12th March 2009 – video embedded below]
Other “appearances” by James Boyle worth a listen and watch include a Radio 4 “Thinking Aloud” interview and a NESTA “Rip, Mix & Burn” event where James provides the keynote and dominates the Q&A session.
James is a passionate and engaging speaker and a great advocate for Creative Commons in his role as chair.
