Selections from the 2007 Albany Law School Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination, and Protection of Intellectual Property

Halpern, Sheldon W., Albany Law Review

In 2000, the National Research Council published THE DIGITAL DILEMMA, (1) a report on the complex challenge to established norms created by the radical growth in information technology. As the report notes, "many of the intellectual property rules and practices that evolved in the world of physical artifacts do not work well in the digital environment...." (2) If, as I believe, the law of copyright creates the infrastructure for our culture, the way in which that law responds to this challenge has profound implications for that culture.

On the assumption that the most productive way to respond to the challenge is to examine it from different perspectives and interests, a diverse array of distinguished individuals from a variety of …

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Publication information: Article title: Selections from the 2007 Albany Law School Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination, and Protection of Intellectual Property. Contributors: Halpern, Sheldon W. - Author. Journal title: Albany Law Review. Volume: 70. Issue: 4 Publication date: Fall 2007. Page number: 1151+. © 1999 Albany Law School. COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale Group.

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