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SUMMARY:Cultural Agoraphobia and the Future of the Library: the first Arca
 dia Lecture - Professor James 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. T
 he success of non proprietary systems—ranging from open source software 
 to Wikipedia and the open Internet itself—fills us with surprise. He cal
 ls this bias “cultural agoraphobia.” In a world where all texts were t
 angible\, the institution of the library stood for the proposition that a 
 certain degree of openness was good\; that a place that allowed free acces
 s 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 t
 he digital world? Will it survive at all? What is the future of the librar
 y in a world grappling with cultural agoraphobia?\n\n*About the speaker*\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. Professor B
 oyle is also the Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons\, and the co-fo
 under of Science Commons. He serves on the board of the Public Library of 
 Science and on the advisory board of Public Knowledge. In 2003 Professor B
 oyle won the World Technology Network Award for Law for his work on the pu
 blic domain and the “second enclosure movement” that threatens it. He 
 is the author of _Shamans\, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction
  of the Information Society_\, and the editor of _Critical Legal Studies\,
  Collected Papers on the Public Domain and Cultural Environmentalism @ 10_
  (with Larry Lessig.) His more recent books include _Bound By Law_\, a co-
 authored “graphic novel” about the effects of intellectual property on
  documentary film\, _The Shakespeare Chronicles_\, a novel\, and _The Publ
 ic Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind_ which was published in 2008 
 by Yale University Press. He writes a regular online column for the Financ
 ial Times’s New Economy Policy Forum.
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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