IP: It's about property rights

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Gillmor, Dan" <DGillmor () sjmercury com>
> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
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> http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg082700.htm
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> It's about property rights -- intellectual property rights, which
> increasingly are gaining supremacy over traditional values and liberties in
> an epic struggle for economic primacy in the new century. Free speech, among
> the most precious rights, is under attack these days, and not just from the
> moralists and dictator-wannabes who would censor various kinds of political
> and social speech.