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Technology & Science

Apr. 18, 2000

Creativity Frays Can End Soon

By Marisa Navarro Emerging Staff Writer With the click of a mouse or a push of a key, data moves through cyberspace. But in that one quick click, someone else also can open, backdate and steal the information. When the data are a noteworthy scientific invention, literary work or song lyrics, verbal, legal - and often unverifiable - arguments are inevitable.

By Marisa Navarro
Emerging Staff Writer
        With the click of a mouse or a push of a key, data moves through cyberspace. But in that one quick click, someone else also can open, backdate and steal the information. When the data are a noteworthy scientific invention, literary work or song lyrics, verbal, legal - and often unverifiable - arguments are inevitable.
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