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12. Legal Pressures in Intellectual Property Law
Pages 95-98

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From page 95...
... I think that is important to think about because it is a dilemma implicit in this symposium and a lot of the scientific community's study of intellectual property (IP) issues: do you look at intellectual property policy as a subject of study or do you address IP policy as a battleground in which the science community will, whether you like it or not, either be warriors or cannon fodder.
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From page 96...
... They suddenly found themselves outflanked by Dell Computer, who forced them to take several patents on Dell business methods. In the patent area, the important issues that the scientific community has rightfully focused on are patenting of research tools and of express sequence tags.
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From page 97...
... They are troubled by the digital locks that are being deployed by private players and the laws that make it illegal to tamper with the digital locks. Professor Cohen is going to talk later about digital rights management technologies.3 The one place where the scientific community has come together against these digital rights management technologies and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
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From page 98...
... In the United States, as Professor Reichman said, there has been equipoise between political forces for several years, and we are not going to get any international movement until the United States is somewhere. Both Professor Reichman and I probably agree that we need to have some modest database protection law in the United States to serve as a counterpoise to the European Union.
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