"A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?"

Boyle, James. “A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?” Duke Law Journal 47, no. 1 (October 1997): 87–116.

Following extensive discussion of the role that intellectual property plays in the information society, mainly with reference to the US context, Professor of Law James Boyle (Duke Law School) suggests that it is worthwhile to draw parallels between efforts to protect the public domain on the one hand, and the emergence of the American environmental movement on the other. An extract from this article was published in Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, edited by Max Andrews, in 2006.