:''For the broadcaster, see
James Boyle (broadcasting)''
'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 one of the founding Board Members 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 is the author of ''Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society'' (Harvard University Press, 1996) as well as a novel published under a
Creative Commons license, ''The Shakespeare Chronicles'' (Lulu Press, 2007). 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. Boyle also contributes a column to the Financial Times New Technology Policy Forum.
External links
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Duke University School of Law biography
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7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution on Google Video