Intellectual Property: The Many Faces of the Public Domain

Scholars and practitioners in law and media grapple with the several wrenches that public domain throws into the otherwise smoothly running machinery of intellectual property law. They discuss such aspects as copyright's public domain, altering the contours of the public domain, traditional knowledge, how scientific research agendas are controlled and shaped by the scope of patent-ability, ideology versus interest, and whether a rights-free world is workable and if so what its point is. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)