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What Do Intellectual Property Owners Want?

http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ar/ip_owners.html

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Why copyright? Why did this obscure branch of "intellectual property," this private concern of entertainment and software firms, become the most pressing public policy area of the computer field?

[The Sklyarov and Jonansen cases] make us suspect that the multiple tentacles of the "intellectual property" leviathan bears barbed hooks on each end--and that some of the critical issues in modern democracy and discourse may be snagged by them.

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(This article is also currently in print at The American Reporter, http://american-reporter.com/)