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James Boyle is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina. He joined the faculty in July 2000. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the current chairperson[1] of Creative Commons, a not-for-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. He was one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons. The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. ... Nickname: Location in North Carolina Coordinates: , Country State Counties Durham, Orange, Wake Government  - Mayor Bill Bell Area  - City  94. ... For other universities known as American University, see American University (disambiguation). ... The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Silverman Hall of the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania Law School is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. ... The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ...


He is the author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society [1] as well as a novel published under a Creative Commons license, The Shakespeare Chronicles.[2] In 2003, he won the World Technology Award for Law for his work on the intellectual ecology of the public domain, and on the "Second Enclosure Movement" that threatens it.[3] Boyle also contributes a column to the Financial Times New Technology Policy Forum. The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ... The World Technology Award is an annual recognition award given by the World Technology Network (WTN) to individuals and corporations achieving significant progress in about 20 different categories that affect the modern world. ... The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. ...


References

  1. ^ Boyle, James (1996), Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society, Harvard University Press
  2. ^ Boyle, James (2007), The Shakespeare Chronicles, Lulu Press
  3. ^ Boyle, James (2003), "The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain", Law and Contemporary Problems 66:33-75

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External links

  • Duke University School of Law biography
  • 7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution on Google Video

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Review of James Boyle's Shamans, Software, and Spleens (1547 words)
Boyle can even conceive of a future in which romantic authorship becomes a justification for a kind of "slavery" of human-created life forms (be they animal hybrids or thinking computers), since creators will be able to argue that the life forms are "original" creations.
Boyle is right when he says that the author as basis for intellectual property laws is a pervasive system, but this book would have been even more interesting and cogent had Boyle considered some paradigm other than the romantic author on which to base a system of intellectual property.
Boyle does not devote any space to a discussion of the effects the "author-centered regime" might have on composition classes, nor does he consider how his proposed "solutions" might affect the way writing is taught and thought about in the Academy.
Harvard University Press: Shamans, Software, and Spleens : Law and the Construction of the Information Society by James ... (822 words)
James Boyle's unusually adventurous Shamans, Software and Spleens...examines the ideological and practical issues raised by the figure of the author in contemporary law and legal theory...Boyle's programme is two-fold.
Boyle, a professor of law at American University in Washington, argues that neither economics nor political theory tells us how much to privatize intellectual creation...Many high-sounding legal explanations, he demonstrates, are based on ad hoc, and often unarticulated, guesses about costs and benefits.
Boyle's book is an important contemporary addition to a range of historical works on authorship, textual studies, and the theory of property.
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