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SUMMARY:Cultural Agoraphobia and The Future of The Library - Professor Jam
 es Boyle\, Duke University
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nIn his new book 'The Public Domain: Enclosing th
 e Commons of the Mind' James Boyle argues that we have a bias that makes u
 s unduly skeptical of open networks\, systems and methods of production.  
 The success of non proprietary systems -- ranging from open source softwar
 e to Wikipedia and the open Internet itself -- fills us with surprise.  He
  calls this bias "cultural agoraphobia."  In a world where all texts were 
 tangible\, the institution of the library stood for the proposition that a
  certain degree of openness was good\; that a place that allowed free acce
 ss to knowledge by every citizen  was one of the defining institutions of 
 a liberal society and culture.   How will that principle change or evolve 
 in the digital world?  Will it survive at all?  What is the future of the 
 library in a world grappling with cultural agoraphobia?\n\n*About the spea
 ker*\n\nJames Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law 
 School and founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Profe
 ssor Boyle is also the Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons\, and the
   co-founder of Science Commons.  He serves on the board of the Public Lib
 rary of Science and on the advisory board of Public Knowledge.   In 2003 P
 rofessor Boyle won the World Technology Network Award for Law for his work
  on the public domain and the "second enclosure movement" that threatens i
 t.   He is the author of _Shamans\, Software and Spleens: Law and the Cons
 truction of the Information Society_\, and the editor of _Critical Legal S
 tudies\, Collected Papers on the Public Domain and Cultural Environmentali
 sm @ 10_ (with Larry Lessig.)  His more recent books include _Bound By Law
 _\, a co-authored "graphic novel" about the effects of intellectual proper
 ty on documentary film\,  _The Shakespeare Chronicles_\, a novel\, and  _T
 he Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind_  which was published 
 in 2008 by Yale University Press.  He writes a regular online column for t
 he _Financial Times_'s New Economy Policy Forum.
LOCATION:Wolfson College
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