Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice

The Public Domain, by James Boyle (Yale, £12.99)Arguments about "intellectual property" are too often conducted by the fundamentalists of both sides, so law professor Boyle's scrupulous and engaging book is a refreshment as well as a manifesto. Slapping down facile arguments that the "open-source" model can be applied to everything, and also the farcical reasoning of corporate content-creators, Boyle concentrates fruitfully on recent legislative history, winning the reader's confidence with, ...

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