Intellectual Property
Mar. 6, 2001
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Whatever you may think about Napster, the 9th Circuit's opinion dramatically and unwisely has upset the balance in an old dispute between copyright owners and technology innovators. Marketplace incentives that otherwise would have guided innovation and product development now will be distorted. Consumers will have fewer, more expensive, less capable products to choose from, all to protect copyright owners from the speculative threat of Napster.
By Fred von Lohmann
Whatever you may think about Napster, the 9th Circuit's opinion dramatically and unwisely has upset the balance in an old dispute between copyright owners and technology innovators. Marketplace incentives that otherwise would have guided innovation and product development now will be distort...
Whatever you may think about Napster, the 9th Circuit's opinion dramatically and unwisely has upset the balance in an old dispute between copyright owners and technology innovators. Marketplace incentives that otherwise would have guided innovation and product development now will be distort...
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