Intellectual Property in Business and Society

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Discussion began (mostly between bloggers and on public radio, it seems) in July about possible royalties fees due from the government for use of songs at Gitmo for torture...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/09/news.culture3
http://www.lightreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=222&doc_id=159515

I first heard about it on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and of course they had a humorous take on it. The segment is at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92693793

There's some question as to whether such fees--and thus intellectual property safeguards--apply to military bases, but this story definitely has a lot to think about.

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