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"The Devolution of Intellectual Property Rights in the United States"

Professor Rod Underhill

Professor Underhill will track the apparent transference of control over intellectual property rights to "techno-hijackers." Attention will be spent discussing the landmark case of UMG v. MP3.com, the early history of Napster and the current Google copyright litigation. In a world where 95 percent of all digital downloads of music are stolen, Google is conducting an unauthorized duplication of virtually every published book in the world and DVDs of motion pictures are freely sold in urban alley ways, what does the future hold for intellectual property owners? What trends are shaping up that will affect intellectual property rights in the coming years?

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