James Boyle

James Boyle

James DA Boyle (* 1959 ) is an American legal scholar and economist. He is a professor of law at Duke University and a co-founder of Creative Commons . His main areas of activity are intellectual property , internet law and legal theory .

Life

James Boyle, originally from Scotland, obtained his LLB degree from Glasgow University in 1980 and then obtained his Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) degree from Harvard Law School in 1986 . In July 2000 he was appointed to the Duke University School of Law. He has lectured at American University , Yale , Harvard , and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

He is one of the founding members and former chairman of the Creative Commons. He is also a co-founder of other knowledge commons initiatives such as Science Commons and ccLearn, and sits on the scientific advisory board of the non-governmental organization Public Knowledge . Boyle was one of six experts who wrote the Hargreaves Report on Adapting UK Copyright Law to the Digital Age.

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Boyle is considered the "godfather of the free culture movement". He mainly works in the areas of intellectual property, tort law , legal theory, law and literature , as well as internet and technology law. His book Shamans, Software, and Spleens was published in the mid-1990s . Law and the Construction of the Information Society (Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1996). In this book, Boyle argues that the romantic notion of the author as a single individual creating something “original” permeates intellectual property law. In the age of the knowledge society it is increasingly questionable, according to Boyle, to place the “ownership” of intellectual production on the basis of such a romantic authorship. According to Lawrence Lessig , his book helped structure the copyright debate at a time when few scholars understood its importance. Boyle has continued research on the subject in The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press 2008).

In The Public Doman , Boyle deals with the expanding grip of copyright law on the world. In an eclectic selection from Benjamin Franklin to Jamie Foxx , he outlines the development of the steadily expanding intellectual property law that determines both what music we listen to and what we eat. He fears that culture and common knowledge will increasingly be fenced in and privatized, and thus lost to the general public. According to Boyle, these developments are progressing even though the American constitution actually provides a different and much more open model of legal protection for authors and inventors. In the final chapters Boyle describes the social movement against such an extension of property rights, and the advocacy of a large public sphere. He refers, among other things, to works that are published under Creative Commons licenses or to Wikipedia .

In addition to his scientific publications, Boyle's The Shakespeare Chronicles is a historical detective novel. He published it in 2006 under a Creative Commons license.

Publications (selection)

• Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society , Harvard University Press 1997, ISBN 978-0-674-80522-4
• The Public Domain (ed), Winter / Spring 2003, Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 66), Duke University School of Law
  • The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain (PDF file; 313 kB)
• Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? , Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain 2006, ISBN 978-0-974-15531-9
• Cultural Environmentalism @ 10 (ed, with Lawrence Lessig ), Spring 2007, Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 70), Duke University School of Law
  • Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond
• The Shakespeare Chronicles: A Novel , Lulu Press 2006, ISBN 978-1-430-30768-6
• Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind , Yale University Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-13740-8

Web links

Commons : James Boyle  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• The public domain. Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
• Boyle Intellectual Property Homepage
• Die Zeit: Review of The Public Domain

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom: Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource , 66 Law & Contemp. Probs., Pp. 111, 140.
2. ^ CC: Board Report 2009
3. ↑ Biography of JDA Boyle ( Memento from July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Intellectual Property Office: About the review ( Memento from July 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Lawrence Lessig : [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Paul Amore: The Authorization of Information [2]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ).
7. ^ L. Lessig: Cultural Environmentalism - Foreword, 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1.
8. ↑ Kembrew McLeod: Whose is Whose in: The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring, 2009), pp. 100-101