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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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