James Boyle (academic)

James DA Boyle ( born 1959 ) is a professor of law at Duke University and co-founder of Creative Commons. His practice focuses on Intellectual Property, Internet Law and Legal Theory.

Life

A native of Scotland James Boyle made ​​at Glasgow University in 1980 his LLB, then he made in 1986 at Harvard Law School in 1986 the Doctor of Juridical Sciences ( SJD ). July 2000, he was appointed to the Duke University School of Law. He has taught at the American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

He is one of the founding members and former Chairman of Creative Commons. He is also co-founder of other initiatives in the field of knowledge commons 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 the adaptation of the British copyright in the digital age.

Work

Boyle is considered the " godfather of the Free Culture movement." He works primarily in the areas of Intellectual Property, tort law, legal theory, law and literature, as well as Internet and technology law. Mid-1990, his book Shamans, Software, and Spleens. Law and the Construction of the Information Society ( Cambridge, Mass.:. Harvard University Press, 1996). In this book, Boyle represents that the romantic notion of the author, penetrates as a single individual, which draws something " Original " the law of intellectual property. In the era of knowledge society, it is increasingly questionable Boyle to put the "property" in intellectual production on the basis of such a romantic authorship. In the opinion of Lawrence Lessig his book already helped to structure at a time, the debate over copyright, only a few scientists had recognized their importance to the. Boyle has the research on this subject in The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons continued of the Mind ( Yale University Press 2008).

In addition to his scientific publications Boyle has presented a historical mystery novel with The Shakespeare Chronicles. He published this in 2006 under a Creative Commons license.

Selected Publications

  • 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 ( Bd 66), Duke University School of Law The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain (PDF file, 313 kB)
  • Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond
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