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Who's Right on Intellectual Property?

by Joyce Statz, Michael Epner

In IT organizations around the world, debates are raging about the ownership, protection, and commercial value of intellectual property (IP). What is worth protecting? Should business methods like Amazon's "1-Click" be patentable? Are e-commerce transactions in violation of existing patents? What should be covered by copyright? Does the open source movement render obsolete the matter of ownership of software? In a series of point-counterpoint sections, we present arguments for and against many of the important intellectual property questions IT organizations face today.

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Who's Right on Intellectual Property? December 2000

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