James Boyle

Professor of Law at Duke Law School

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Professor of Law at Duke Law School and co-founder of its Center for the Study of the Public Domain; board member of Creative Commons; author of The Shakespeare Chronicles, a literary mystery about a search for the true author of Shakespeare's works

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The Internet website  YouTube  is growing like mad. Last year's nine million monthly visitors skyrocketed to 133 million this year, and  Google purchased YouTube  for $1.65 billion.

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