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Milton L. Mueller
associate professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Rights of personality — the power to control your likeness, image, or name. In the past, the guy doing the bad John Wayne imitation at a party didnét have to pay royalties, but as we obtain the ability to synthesize and record such things, I can imagine more pressure to define and enforce exclusivity.
Negativland
recording artists; authors, Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2
The redefinition of intellectual and property itself. Reductively, all property is intellectual in the information age. As nanotech and genetic science mature, they will interweave in frightening ways that are hardly conceivable at the moment. These technologies — and the wrongheaded philosophies they inspire — will challenge our notions of intellectual property on a vast scale.
Fred von Lohmann
senior staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Analog to digital converters. For years, the tech savvy have laughed at digital rights management on the theory that no protection could stop you from putting a microphone in front of a speaker. Well, what if every A/D converter incorporated lockware that prevents unauthorized digital recording? The MPAA has proposed this as their preferred fix for the-analog hole.é Ités the next stop in the march to Senator Hollingsé Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act dystopia, where all digital technology is redesigned by the Feds to Hollywoodés specs.
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What�s the next battleground for intellectual property?
Why Are Online Personals So Hot?
Google�s Compromising Position
Flying Blind
