Authors

This book was written by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, designed by all of its authors in innumerable, hilarious and occasionally manic conference calls, and drawn by Keith Aoki, a person who (in the opinion of his co-authors) is far too talented to be a law professor.

Keith Aoki is a longtime cartoonist who loves the late 1960s comic work of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Jim Steranko and earlier greats like Will Eisner, Chester Gould and Al Capp. He has also been influenced by the vibrant contemporary work of Robert Crumb, Scott McCloud, Art Spiegelman and Jamie Hernandez. In the mid-1980s, Aoki decided to leave the bohemian art demimonde to go to Harvard Law School. He is now the Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law, where he has taught since 1993 and specializes in the area of intellectual property. He has published law review articles in the Stanford, California, Iowa and Boston College Law Reviews and is author of the forthcoming book Seed Wars: Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property and Plant Genetic Resources.

James Boyle is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School and one of the founders of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. He is a Board Member of Creative Commons, and a columnist for the online Financial Times. Boyle was the winner of the 2003 World Technology Award for Law for his work on the “intellectual ecology” of the public domain, and on the “second enclosure movement” that threatens it. He is the author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society as well as a depressingly large number of law review articles, and is the special editor of Collected Papers on the Public Domain.

Jennifer Jenkins is Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, where she heads its “Arts Project” and teaches a seminar on Intellectual Property, the Public Domain and Free Speech. As a lawyer, she was a member of the team that defended the copyright infringement suit against the publisher of the novel “The Wind Done Gone” (a parodic rejoinder to “Gone With the Wind”). As an artist, she co-authored “Nuestra Hernandez,” a fictional documentary addressing copyright and appropriation, and has authored several short stories, one of which was published in Duke's Tobacco Road literary magazine.