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Technology Challenging Rights

Rights to anything are defined by the public authorities of a country in which the thing is located. Rights to a literary or artistic work are no different and can...
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Opening Content Protection

MP3 has shown that the combination of technology and user needs can create mass phenomena behaving like a hydra. For every head of the MP3 hydra that is cut by...
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Technology, Society and Law

When radio and television broadcasting were introduced, it was reasonable to expect that physical forms of distribution would eventually disappear. Why should people pay for something when the same thing...
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The World After MP3

MP3 has shown how the expectations of rights holders concerning the use of digital content clash with those of billions of end users. In this chapter I would like to...
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