According to Forgent's 10-Q form, filed on June 17,
2002, yet another, unidentified "prestigious international" company,
parted with $15 million in April.
In commentaries written in 1999-2000 by Harvard law professor, Lawrence
Lessig, for "The Industry Standard", he observed:
"There is growing skepticism among academics about whether such
state-imposed monopolies help a rapidly evolving market such as the
Internet. What is "novel," "nonobvious" or "useful" is hard enough to
know in a relatively stable field. In a transforming market, it's
nearly impossible..."
The very concept of intellectual property is being radically
transformed by the onslaught of new technologies.
The myth of intellectual property postulates that entrepreneurs assume
the risks associated with publishing books, recording records, and
inventing only because - and where - the rights to intellectual
property are well defined and enforced. In the absence of such rights,
creative people are unlikely to make their works accessible to the
public. Ultimately, it is the public which pays the price of piracy and
other violations of intellectual property rights, goes the refrain.
This is untrue.
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