From phm@a2e.de  Mon Oct 16 18:52:14 2000
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:52:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] Gore to enforce American IP abroad

>From the Politech mailing list:

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On intellectual property laws -- including the well-publicized Napster case 
-- it's hard to know where the candidates stand. Shortly after his 
selection as Bush's running mate, Dick Cheney was asked on a Sunday morning 
talk show what he thought of Napster's legal woes, and Cheney candidly 
admitted that he had no idea. Gore has said he wants to "crack down on 
foreign piracy of U.S. intellectual property" -- an admirable agenda item 
-- but I suspect many of Napster's users 20 million users are here in the 
United States.

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