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Divining the Future of Internet Law

Posted by michael on from the he-who-has-the-gold-makes-the-rules dept.

Mansing writes: "In his last Cyber Law Journal (New York Times, registration required, etc.), Carl Kaplan has captured a collection of insights from the like of Dr. Larry Lessig and Dr. James Boyle. Each one of these correspondents brings a slightly different, and sometimes humorous, view of what legal challenges and legal decisions may face the users of technology in the next year."

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  1. I predict... by hubbabubba · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the NYT is gonna get all steamed up about copyright infringement by people who post their entire articles at Slashdot. ;-)

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  2. More divination: by Proaxiom · · Score: 2, Funny
    Inevitably the MPAA and RIAA will argue that robot-written scripts and music must be protected for the life of the robot + 70.

    They will defend the constitutionality of it by arguing no robot will survive the theoretical end of the universe, and so the copyrights will expire 70 years after that, and are therefore of limited time.

    Myself, I intend to make a lot of money off my AI project that composes rudimentary musical scores...