"'The Future of Ideas': Protecting the Old With Copyright Law," New York Times, 1/6/2002

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

<<...OLE_Obj...>> "'The Future of Ideas': Protecting the Old With
Copyright Law," New York Times, 1/6/2002

[...]Lessig's passionate new book, ''The Future of Ideas,'' argues that
America's concern with protecting intellectual property has become an
oppressive obsession. ''The distinctive feature of modern American
copyright law,'' he writes, ''is its almost limitless bloating.'' As
Lessig sees it, a system originally designed to provide incentives for
innovation has increasingly become a weapon for attacking cutting-edge
creativity. ...Sadly, Lessig's grim assessment is dead on.

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