Contemporary Intellectual Property Law

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This paper discusses the challenge brought to our understanding of intellectual property law and copyright by way of MP3 file technology, the Internet, and general changes in the environment of law that once protected the monopoly of the music recording industry, as the prime example. The paper stresses how technology forever will alter protective law as part of law's reliance on a particular environment.

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"The advent of cyber-technology and the overall revolution in communications has produced much debate on how to maintain our previous ideas of intellectual property. An important fundamental idea is that of how we assume that laws protecting property have always been in place, forgetting that they are relatively new, and that law of the kind very much depends on our ability to enforce the law. McCourt & Burkart explained the challenge to existing intellectual property law that was raised by on-line music distribution, Napster or other MP3 technology, and the response of the United States recording industry."

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