I. The future of the public domain: an introduction; II. Challenges in mapping the public domain; III. Economic analysis of the public domain; IV. More or better? shaping the public domain; V. Wrapping information in contract: how does it affect the public domain? VI. The public domain commodified: technological measures and productive information use; VII. Copyright, commodification, and culture: locating the public domain; VIII. Database protection: the commodification of information; IX. Patenting science: protecting the domain of accessible knowledge; X. Property and privacy: European perspectives and the commodification of our identity; XI. Towards an indigenous public domain? XII. The commercialization of public sector information: delineating the issues; XIII. Free and open source software: an answer to commodification? XIV. Exploring creative commons: a skeptical view of a worthy pursuit.