Intellectual Property

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  • Can anyone stop the music cops?

    As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 17, 2003

  • Mexico's music business meltdown

    Pirates armed with CD burners and cheap discs are bringing the industry to its knees. The U.S. could be next.
    By Jack Brown June 9, 2003

  • A file-trading ship of fools

    Don't scapegoat greedy record execs for Napster's failure, says Joseph Menn in "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster." The inept bunglers who ran the company have only themselves to blame.
    By Farhad Manjoo April 21, 2003

  • Are we doomed yet?

    The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to humanity that no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A fully open society is our best chance for survival.
    By Sheldon Pacotti March 31, 2003

  • AOL's Jekyll and Hyde act

    The world's biggest Internet provider is also the world's biggest media company. As the entertainment industry prosecutes users who share music, will AOL take a stand?
    By Farhad Manjoo February 10, 2003

  • Embrace file-sharing, or die

    A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong.
    By John Snyder and Ben Snyder February 1, 2003

  • After the copyright smackdown: What next?

    Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert. The fight has really only just begun.
    By Siva Vaidhyanathan January 17, 2003

  • Radio Free Software

    Call them hackers of the last computing frontier: The GNU Radio coders believe that any device with a chip should be able to do, well, anything.
    By Sam Williams December 18, 2002

  • Replay it again, Sam

    Personal video recorders already have Hollywood running scared. Now Microsoft is pushing a new computer that will make trading TV shows as easy as using ... Napster.
    By Farhad Manjoo December 9, 2002

  • Jesse Helms: Web radio's hero

    Small Internet radio broadcasters on the brink of financial disaster have won some breathing room, thanks to the senator from North Carolina.
    By F. Timothy Martin November 19, 2002

  • Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile

    Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone.
    By Richard Koman October 9, 2002

  • The Ryze surprise

    A fast-growing business networking site riles some members by -- gasp! -- laying claim to their intellectual property.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 2, 2002

  • Profits from piracy

    Evidence is mounting that cracking down on software copyright infringement may not be good for business. Case study: Microsoft in China.
    By Sam Williams September 26, 2002

  • Hollywood's war on innovation

    Yet another victory for the entertainment industry in its showdown with Silicon Valley: The firing of Sonicblue CEO Ken Potashner.
    By Claire Tristram September 9, 2002

  • File sharing: Guilty as charged?

    New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates.
    By Damien Cave August 23, 2002

  • Sour notes

    The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 30, 2002

  • Can we trust Microsoft's Palladium?

    Critics say Redmond's new security initiative will imprison users. But why would Bill Gates want to do that?
    By Farhad Manjoo July 11, 2002

  • Imitation nation

    Is piracy-crazed China a nightmare vision of the future, or just a developing country going through some severe growing pains?
    By Lisa Movius July 8, 2002

  • The end of the revolution

    "Ruling the Root" documents the sorry tale of how the Internet was brought to heel.
    By Andrew Leonard June 14, 2002

  • File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty

    An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.
    By Damien Cave June 13, 2002

  • Not the real Slim Shady

    Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?
    By Dan Levine June 10, 2002

  • Give it away now

    Music start-up FightCloud.com offers CDs free, but says it's making a profit. How can that be?
    By Thomas Claburn May 23, 2002

  • In defense of copyright

    A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong.
    By Damien Cave April 15, 2002

  • U.S. prepares to invade your hard drive

    A bill before Congress would mandate built-in copy-protection on all digital devices. But even technology experts who really want to protect intellectual property think it's a lousy idea.
    By Paul Boutin March 29, 2002

  • Chained melodies

    Copyright-holding corporations are pushing new laws and computer-crippling technologies in their war on piracy. But can anything keep geeks from copying the music and movies they crave?
    By Damien Cave March 13, 2002
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