Intellectual property and the public domain / edited by Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati Professor of Law and Technology, and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, USA; and Amy L. Landers, Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Concentration, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, USA.

Includes bibliographical references (pages vii-viii).

Recognizing the public domain / David Lange -- The public domain / Jessica Litman -- Enriching discourse on public domains / Pamela Samuelson -- Free as the air to commonuse : First Amendment constraints on enclosure of the public domain / Yochai Benkler -- The place of the user in copyright law / Julie E. Cohen -- A property right in self-expression : equality and individualism in the natural law of intellectual property / Wendy J. Gordon -- Free(ing) culture for remix / Lawrence Lessig -- The competitive mandate : from Sears to Lear / Paul Goldstein -- The second enclosure movement and the construction of the public domain / James Boyle -- Access and the public domain / Randal C. Picker -- Property rights theory and the commons : the case of scientific research / Robert P. Merges -- Protecting the public domain of science : has the time for an experimental use defense arrived / Rochelle Dreyfuss The creative commons / Lawrence Lessig -- Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the nature of the firm / Yochai Benkler -- Protecting open innovation : the defensive patent license as a new approach to innovation : the defensive patent license as a new approach to patent threats, transaction costs, and tactical disarmament / Jason Schultz and Jennifer M. Urban -- Constructing commons in the cultural environment / Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Stranburg -- A new dynamism in the public domain / Robert P. Merges -- The romance of the public domain / Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder.