Subject: FW: Lawrence Lessig: Exclusive rights to stagnate

From: "Lawrence E. Rosen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:25:02 -0800

This is a nice article.  I thought I'd pass it along....  /Larry Rosen

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullSto
ry&c=StoryFT&cid=1045510979794

As pressure mounts on the European Parliament to extend patent
protection to software, a crisis is developing in US patent law that
Europe would do well to consider. The system in America is broken - to
the great detriment of software developers generally - and there is no
reason to believe the Europeans could do any better.

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