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Intellectual property & politics
Declan McCullagh
CNET News.com
Chief political correspondent
San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.news.com/[email protected]
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Value of property rights
American Plains Indians Malecite Indians of New Brunswick North Africa satellite photos Richard Stroup and John Baden, “Property
Rights and Natural Resource Management” (1979)
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Lost Liberty Hotel
Supreme Court Justice David Souter
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Social utility vs. amount of protection
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Social utility vs. amount of protection
No Electronic Theft ActDig. Mill. Copyright ActSoftware patentsFamily Ent. & Copy ActCopyright Term ExtensionBroadcast flag
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Democrat or Republican?
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Democrat or Republican?
Hillary RosenFormer RIAA head - Democrat
Jack ValentiFormer MPAA head - Democrat
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Democrat or Republican?
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Democrat or Republican?
Dan GlickmanMPAA headDemocrat, Clinton administration
Mitch BainwolRIAA headRepublican, Sen. Bill Frist aide
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Politics of copyright in Washington
House, Senate judiciary committees Non-partisan on some IP areas (patent,
trademark), much more partisan on others Two bills to permit “fair use” circumvention
of DRM both introduced by Democrats Crisis-driven approach “Rent seeking” effects
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Conclusion
LEAVE DRM ALONE: A SURVEY OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS RELATING TO DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR PROBLEMS (2005 Mich St. L.R. 1)
http://mccullagh.org/misc/articles/michigan.state.drm.0605.pdf http://www.politechbot.com/
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