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Property (And Copyright) In Cyberspace, I. Trotter Hardy
Property (And Copyright) In Cyberspace, I. Trotter Hardy
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Intellectual Property Policy Online: A Young Person’S Guide, James Boyle
Intellectual Property Policy Online: A Young Person’S Guide, James Boyle
Faculty Scholarship
This is an edited version of a presentation to the "Intellectual Property Online" panel at the Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society, May 28-31, 1996. The panel was a reminder of both the importance of intellectual property and the dangers of legal insularity. Of approximately 400 panel attendees, 90% were not lawyers. Accordingly, the remarks that follow are an attempt to lay out the basics of intellectual property policy in a straighforward and non-technical manner. In other words, this is what non-lawyers should know (and what a number of government lawyers seem to have forgotten) about intellectual property policy …
The Technological Transformation Of Copyright Law, Fred H. Cate
The Technological Transformation Of Copyright Law, Fred H. Cate
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Both statutory and case law clearly recognize the constitutional interest in promoting, not restricting, expression. Digital technologies, however, are rapidly changing the application of copyright law to prohibit access, protect ideas and facts, and dramatically expand the monopoly granted to copyright holders.
Whether on a disk or network, digital expression cannot be accessed without being copied into computer memory, as well as onto a hard drive, floppy disk, or magnetic tape if it is to be retained after the computer is switched off. This necessarily violates the exclusive right to reproduce that copyright law grants to copyright holders.
Moreover, to …