James Boyle
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James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School, in Durham, North Carolina. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania |University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is also a co-founder of the 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) (ISBN 0674805224).
He is the winner of the 2003 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.
