James Boyle ( born James Boyle ; born 1959 ) is a Scottish legal scholar, writer, and specialist in copyright , information law, and the public domain .
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| Date of Birth | 1959 |
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| Occupation | lawyer , writer |
| Awards and prizes | EFF Pioneer Award ( 2010 ) |
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Activities
James Boyle graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1980 and subsequently attended Harvard Law School . Since July 2000, he has been a professor at Duke University Law School, and before that he taught at the American University , Yale and Harvard Law Schools , and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
James Boyle is one of the founders and former chairman of Creative Commons [1] [2] [3] . He is also a co-founder of Science Commons , an organization aimed at expanding the activities of Creative Commons in the dissemination of scientific, technical data and facilitating access to educational resources [4] .
Boyle is the author of several literary works, such as Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society, and The Shakespeare Chronicles , published under the Creative Commons license [5] [6] .
In 2006, published the comic strip Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain ”dedicated to intellectual property and public domain laws [7] [8] [9] . The comic tells the story of the female director Akiko, who overcomes the difficulties associated with the application of the fair use principle in the process of working on a documentary. Illustrations include collages from famous works, as well as images created especially for comics [10] .
In his most recent work on intellectual property issues, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind , Boyle argues that the current copyright system does not fulfill its original mission: to reward and promote creativity. [11] This book has also been published under the Creative Commons Nonprofit License [12] .
Boyle is a columnist for the Financial Times .
Rewards
In 2003, the James Boyle was awarded the World Technology Award in Law. For his research in the development of the ideas of the public domain and the analysis of obstacles to this [13] [14] . In 2006, he received the Duke Bar Association Distinguished Teaching Award . In 2010, he received the EFF Pioneer Award .
Bibliography
James Boyle is the author of several books and more than hundreds of scientific and journal articles:
- 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 edition of Law and Contemporary Problems (vol 66, ## 1-2), Duke University School of Law
- The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain (PDF-Datei; 313 kB)
- Aoki K. , Boyle J. , Jenkins J. , Duke University. Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Bound by Law ?: Tales from the Public Domain . - Duke University Press, 2006 .-- 72 p. - ISBN 9780822344186 .
- Cultural Environmentalism @ 10 (ed, with Lawrence Lessig ), Spring 2007 edition of Law and Contemporary Problems (vol 70, # 2), Duke University School of Law
- The Shakespeare Chronicles: A Novel , Lulu Press 2006, ISBN 978-1-4303-0768-6
- Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind , Yale University Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-13740-8
- Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society Selected Statutes & Treaties .— Center for the Study of the Public Domain 2014.
Notes
- ↑ Amy Harmon . A New Direction for Intellectual Property , NYTimes (May 13, 2002). Date of treatment July 27, 2009.
- ↑ People . Creative Commons. Date of treatment July 16, 2008.
- ↑ Linksvayer, Mike Esther Wojcicki Becomes Creative Commons Board Chair (link not available) . Creative Commons (April 1, 2009). Date of treatment April 1, 2009. Archived April 4, 2009.
- ↑ Biography Archived July 26, 2010. on Boyle's official website. Last accessed March 15, 2009.
- ↑ Boyle, James (2007), The Shakespeare Chronicles , Lulu Press
- ↑ Boyle, James (1997), Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society , Harvard University Press
- ↑ Aoki K. , Boyle J. , Jenkins J. , Duke University. Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Bound by Law ?: Tales from the Public Domain . - Duke University Press, 2006 .-- 72 p. - ISBN 9780822344186 .
- ↑ Fiona Morgan. Battling the Copyright Monster . Wired (June 19, 2006). Archived on May 14, 2013.
- ↑ Corey Doctorow . Bound By Law: the "Understanding Comics" of copyright, in a new edition . Boing Boing (October 24, 2008).
- ↑ Pike, George H .. Fun with Copyright , Information Today (September 1, 2008). Archived July 1, 2017. Date of treatment January 13, 2016.
- ↑ Aaron Stronge. Review: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (link unavailable) . Journal of High Technology Law, Suffolk University Law School (May 13, 2002). Date of treatment July 27, 2009. Archived June 6, 2011.
- ↑ Boyle, James (2008), The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind , Yale University Press
- ↑ James Boyle Wins WTN Award | Berkman Center (inaccessible link) . Cyber.law.harvard.edu (February 19, 2008). Date of treatment June 8, 2012. Archived March 30, 2012.
- ↑ Boyle, James. The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain (English) // Law and Contemporary Problems: journal. - 2003. - Vol. 66 . - P. 33-75 .
Links
- james-boyle.com - James Boyle official site
- James Boyle Biography
- 7 Ways to Ruin a Technological Revolution on YouTube
- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind , 2008
- James Boyle works in the Gutenberg project
- The Public Domain. Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
- Die Zeit: Rezension zu The Public Domain - Die Dieit : A Survey of the Public Domain