This article reviews the main theories about the prehistoric shift from hunting and gathering
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This chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning literature on the law and
economics of intellectual property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of …

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" Rethinking Music is in two parts. Part 1 focusses on approaches to musical texts, covering
such topics as the relationship of text and context, concepts of unity and meaning in music …

Several years ago I told my esteemed and experienced Berkeley colleague Jesse Choper
that I was beginning work on this book. After he heard a bit about my plans, his response …

During the past fifteen years, changes in the technologies used to make and store audio and
video recordings, combined with the communication revolution associated with the Internet …

What is copying good for? Why would someone of good faith want to copy? Debates over
massive file sharing of music and movies have helped to make" copier" a synonym for" …

In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at
the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes …

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is widely considered" the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news …

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the real stakes so far have been in suing those who facilitate infringement by others …