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[FYI] How much copyright protection does the internet need?



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SURVEY: THE INTERNET SOCIETY  

A fine balance  

Jan 23rd 2003  

>From The Economist print edition  

How much copyright protection does the internet need?  

THE subject sounds as dry as dust, but the debate on copyright has 
been extremely lively. On one side stand the entertainment and 
publishing industries, and the intellectual property lawyers who make 
their living from them. On the other is a motley collection of 
consumer advocates, law-school professors and cyber-libertarians. 
Both sides claim that nothing less is at stake than the future of 
creative endeavour itself. Will the internet and related technologies 
unleash an unprecedented burst of intellectual and artistic effort, 
benefiting producer and consumer alike? Or will the web end up as an 
intellectual wasteland, deprived of content by the fear of rampant 
copying?  

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