INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Who Owns Thought?*

By Tom Bethell

What once took a scribe in a monastery a year to copy can now be copied in a nanosecond--which poses a few problems for copyright law. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell offers an easy-to-understand primer on a not-so-easy-to-understand subject.

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