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The End of Innovation?

Aug 10, 2001

OpenP2P.com editor Richard Koman with Internet law and policy expert Lawrence Lessig. This article reinforces a point I made in a recent paper: that recent increases in copyright and patent protection are concentrating the control of information in corporate hands: "The power to develop technologies that enable the distribution and research into the technologies for encryption is essentially centralized into the hands of those digital rights management companies that are supporting mainly traditional Hollywood or media interests." August 7, 2001CRLF

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