The Crime of the (20th) Century:

How we Threw Away our Cultural Heritage for No Good Reason (and whether Google Books will bring it back)

A talk by James Boyle

Event Details

Friday, October 9th

reception at 5 pm | talk at 5:30 pm

A co-founder of Creative Commons, Boyle has written extensively on questions of public domain and intellectual property. This speech will look at the controversial Google Books project in light of these issues.

Dr. Boyle's most recent book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, is, in the words of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, "a masterful tour of the intellectual property wars, [and] the fight over who will control the information age."