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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Trend: Content Copyright, the Commons, and the C Generation - Eva Kaplan-Leiserson, Learning Circuits
Have you noticed? There’s a battle raging. On one side are commercial content producers who are fighting to keep electronic content a paid commodity. On the other side are those who believe that content is made to be shared, and that doing so benefits everyone. This issue has received a lot of press lately. One reason is a bill introduced into the U.S. Senate in June 2004 that’s widely supported by the movie studios and recording industry. The Induce Act, also known as the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, seeks to ban file-swapping networks such as Gnutella that use peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and enable users to trade copyrighted content. However, opponents say the bill is worded so broadly as to effectively ban any devices that could conceivably be used to violate a copyright. That could include such popular consumer products as VCRs, digital camcorders, and Apple’s iPod music player, they say.
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