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Halbert, Debora J. (Debora Jean)
Intellectual property in the information age: the politics of
expanding ownership rights / Debora J. Halbert.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56720-254-3 (alk. paper)
1. Intellectual property -- United States. 2. Information
superhighway -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1. Title.
KF2979.H35 1999
346.7304'8 -- dc21 98-23976

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Copyright © 1999 by Debora J. Halbert

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-23976
ISBN: 1-56720-254-3

First published in 1999

Quorum Books, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).

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Copyright Acknowledgments

The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to use the following material:

Portions of the Introduction and Chapter 7 first appeared in Debora Halbert, "The future
of intellectual property law," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 53 ( 1997): 147-160.
Reprinted by permission of Elsevier Science.

Chapter 4 is a revised version of Debora Halbert, "Intellectual property piracy: The nar-
rative construction of deviance," which first appeared in the International Journal for the
Semiotics of Law, X/28 ( 1997): 55-78, and is here reprinted with the permission of the pub-
lishers, Deborah Charles Publications.

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