James Boyle
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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.
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.
[edit] References
- ^ Boyle, James (1996), Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society, Harvard University Press
- ^ Boyle, James (2007), The Shakespeare Chronicles, Lulu Press
- ^ 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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