Technological and other developments create a demand for intellectual property protection, though as we have seen not all such demands will be met (ask Hughie Green). Throughout this book, you will encounter this theme time and time again. Most recently, our notions about intellectual property are being challenged by the growth of the Internet. Copyright in particular is put in need of reform, and various proposals have been put forward, including a 1995 European Commission Green Paper, mentioned further below in the copyright chapter. The following paper by retired cattle rancher, ex-Grateful Dead lyricist and now Internet guru John Perry Barlow calls into question many of our assumptions about intellectual property:
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