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Copyright System Must ?Adapt Or Perish,? WIPO Director Says

By Intellectual Property Watch

The traditional copyright system?s balance for encouraging yet controlling access to copyrighted works in order to extract value for them has met with a destructive force in the internet that it cannot overcome without changing itself, the head of the World Intellectual Property Organization said recently in a landmark speech. And he proposed several elements for the way forward.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).