# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-d-a-boyle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:13.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-d-a-boyle"
name: "James D. A. Boyle"
slug: "james-d-a-boyle"
description: "James Boyle is a Scottish intellectual property scholar. He is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina. He is most prominently known for advocating looser copyright policies in the United States and worldwide."
tagline: "Scottish legal academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Boyle_(academic).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.23
  momentum:             1.041666666666667
  historical:           7.005724
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/thepublicdomain"
    handle:    "thepublicdomain"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11617436/"
    handle:    "nm11617436"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://james-boyle.com"
sources:
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    title: "জেমস বয়েল (শিক্ষায়তনিক)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Boyle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyle_(legal_scholar)"
    title: "James Boyle (legal scholar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyle_(acad%C3%A9mico)"
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    title: "Бойл, Джеймс (правовед)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump