On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:00:49PM -0500, Chad Phillips wrote:
> I am a third year law student and a computer programmer. I am doing an
> independant study over Intellectual Property. I haven't picked a
> specific topic yet. Does anyone have any ideas on topics for an
> Intellectual Property paper that would concern Freenet. Some ideas I
> was tossing around are : legal liablity of node operators, who the
> RIAA might could sue (could they go after the programmers?) etc.
This would be an interesting question. Historically inventors cannot be
held responsible for other people's use of their inventions, however
recent application of copyright law seems to be blurring this rule.
Of course, legal action taken against Freenet's developers would not
hurt Freenet, in fact, the resulting publicity would probably increase
Freenet's exposure dramatically.
Ian.
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