In his latest text, James Boyle provides a delightful and insightful introduction into the role and scope of intellectual property and the dangers faced in the information society by the continued encroachment of such rights. Articulate, witty and lucid the text pulls the reader effortlessly through a series of examples that illustrate the book's central theme. That intellectual property maximalists who equate physical and intellectual property and so demand that IP proportionally increase as copying costs decrease, are wrong.
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