Last week the presidential campaign for Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released a long-awaited technology position paper, which followed one from the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) issued late last year. So how do the two candidates square off on copyright?
Here’s an excerpt from McCain’s position paper:
The entertainment industry is both a vital sector [...]

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I’ve written before about my fears that Google searches, RSS feeds and other tools that, wonderfully, bring us more information than ever before ALSO enable theft of expression like never before.
In the “analog” era, plagiarism was hard work. You had to hand-write or type the prose in front of you, a tedious exercise that generally [...]

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Some readers will remember Spy vs. Spy, which originally was featured in Mad Magazine and then later in its spinoff TV show. Each episode, the two spies would seek to destroy the other, and invariably no one was ever really the winner.
Could we be looking at the same futile battle among recording artists? Hank Williams [...]

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