Center for the Study of the Public Domain

The Center for the Study of the Public Domain is proud to announce the publication of Theft! A History of Music.

The book is a graphic novel (aka “comic book”)  laying out a 2000 year history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap. The comic, by James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and the late Keith Aoki is available as a handsome 8.5 x 11″ paperback, and for free download under a Creative Commons license.

Listen to co-author James Boyle discuss the comic on NPR’s The State of Things.

Read what people are saying about the book: boing boing, DukeToday, Indy Week, Chronicle.