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Article: Protecting intellectual property. (copyright laws for developing technologies)(Cover Story)
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- Tape-Disc Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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Do existing copyright laws apply to disputes concerning developing technologies?
As we look around, the technology of communications and entertainment seems to be changing on a daily basis.
Analog, digital, magnetic and optical media, compact discs, minidiscs, CD-ROMS, digital audio tape and DVDs are just some of the industry's current buzzwords. There are new words being coined on a regular basis, as new technologies are created and blended with each other. Even some of the acronyms are changing with the times. DVD, which had originally meant Digital Video Disc, now means Digital Versatile Disc. It stands to reason; the digital disc can store text, data and ...