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Fortune: Copyright Protection Is for Dinosaurs

Thanks to Bill
Longabaugh
for this link.

“Why do we need to protect intellectual property? Seriously, I’m
beginning to wonder if we really need government protection of
intellectual property in our new cyberworld.”

“Copyright protection evolves from a world in which copying can
be prevented. No one would have even considered this slightly
screwy idea–let’s prevent people from copying other people’s
work–if it had never been possible to prevent copying.”


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