Copy Fights The Future of Intellectural Property in the Information Age

The "Napsterization" of just about everything digitizable -- books, music, movies, and, of course, software itself -- has brought copy protection issues to the forefront as never before.

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Main Authors: Thierer, Adam D, Crews, Clyde Wayne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington DC Cato Institute 2002
Edition:1
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ISBN:1930865252, 9781930865259, 9781930865242, 1930865244
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Table of Contents:
  • COPY FIGHTS: The Future of Intellectual Property In the Information Age -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Great Intellectual Property Debate -- PART I: Theory: What Rights Do We Have In Our Intangible Creations? -- 1. Indelicate Imbalancing in Copyright and Patent Law -- 2. Defending Intellectual Property -- 3. Intellectual Property, Information Age -- 4. Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? The Philosophy of Property Rights and Ideal Objects -- PART II: Current Disputes In Intellectual Property Law -- 5. The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age -- 6. His Napster's Voice -- 7. Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age -- 8. How Copyright Became Controversial -- 9. A Lukewarm Defense of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- 10. The DMCA: Providing Locks for Digital Doors -- 11. The New Legal Panis Over Copyright -- 12. Life after the DMCA and Napster -- 13.Copyright Zealotry in a Digital World: Can Freedom of Speech Survive? -- 14. Copyright in the Post-Napster World:Legal or Market Solutions? -- 15. Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age -- 16. How Can They Patent That? -- 17. Financial Business Method Patents: Nothing New under the Sun -- 18. The Patentability of Internet Business Methods: A Systematic Approach to Evaluatin Obviousness -- Contributors -- INDEX -- About the Editors -- Cato Institute -- Untitled