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<DIV><FONT size=1>I agree wholeheartedly with John here,although IP issues
transcend copyright (i.e trademark disputes with respect to domain names and
patent disputes with respect to electronic business methods). There is not
a day when there is not some story coming across the wires about struggles over
the meaning of intellectual property rights on the web. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=1>Andrew Herman, Ph. D.<BR>Visiting Associate Professor of
Sociology<BR>College of the Holy Cross<BR>Worcester, MA 01610<BR>(508)
793-2531</FONT><BR><BR>>>> john@logie.net 01/30/03 10:02PM
>>><BR>My belated nomination:<BR><BR>"copyright"<BR><BR>I've weighed
the options, and I think this is ultimately preferable to <BR>the umbrella term
"intellectual property." The bulk of the I.P. issues <BR>in electronic composing
spaces are copyright issues, and, at lwast in a <BR>U.S. context, copyright
hovers over, in, and around almost every act of <BR>'Net-based
communication.<BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>John Logie<BR>Rhetoric<BR>University of
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