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The Digital Dilemma: A Perspective on Intellectual Property in the Information Age
Overview Advances in technology have often posed challenges for intellectual property (IP) law. Congress has, for instance, periodically amended copyright law to regulate new technology products (such as photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and cable television) or new uses of works made possible by advances of technology. In addition, new technologies have often given rise to contentious copyright litigations, such as those involving photocopying of scientific articles and home videotaping. Given this history, it should not be surprising that the advent of digital technologies and networks would bring about some perturbations in intellectual property law. The first set of battles over copyright and digital information focused on software copyrights and patents.
| Publisher | University of California, Berkeley | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | April 2000 | Downloads | 10 |
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