Copyright

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Copyright, or intellectual property, is challenged in the 21st century, as everything becomes increasingly easy to copy, from software to songs to drugs to material objects.

Traditional copyright and patent laws are doomed for technical reasons. In several decades access to most information will be free and open, because it's too easy to distribute - legally or not.

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Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All - just one indication, the same is gradually starting to happen everywhere.
The Free & The Unfree - spread of open source, IP-issues in medicine and agrotech. 4 mini-reports.

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