What is intellectual property in the age of PCs and the Internet?

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Wall St.Journal.com, May 13, 2002

The Legal Theorist
What is intellectual property in the age of PCs and the Internet? Pamela
Samuelson thinks she knows

By PHYLLIS PLITCH

Right from the start, personal computers were a lightning rod for
copyright battles. First it was software programs that used similar design
elements. Then the Internet opened up whole new areas of contention, from
music swapping on Napster to the current debate over how far Hollywood can
go in preventing hackers from copying and distributing movies online.
Pamela Samuelson has helped shape the course of these battles For more
than 15 years, Ms. Samuelson, now a law professor at the University of
California at Berkeley, has been fighting what she sees as overzealous and
innovation-stifling expansion of copyright laws in the high-tech arena.
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