"Digitalization and the Internet have brought about enormous changes in the ways in which we receive, consume and share culture. The book Public Access: The Limits of Public Intellectual Property by James Boyle explores the history of intellectual property rights and their impact on society. Through examples from the present and the past, the author analyzes how open access to cultural resources contributes to creativity, innovation and the development of society as a whole. Do we have the right to share a common source of knowledge and culture? This book opens a broad discourse around the important topic of intellectual property and public access to works of the mind."