Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property
February 7, 2002 - February 10, 2002
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Thanks to personal computers and the Internet, the potential to copy and circulate works of art--from music and journalism to rock videos and feature films--is a given.  In 2002 The American Assembly sought to engage in the discussion about this unprecedented situation and the arguments for and against intellectual property rights.  This Assembly asked the question of how fair limits of ownership and free use can be defined when digital technology dissolves such barriers to copyright infringement.


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James Steinberg

James Steinberg is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and cosponsor of The American Assembly's Next Generation Project. He will assume the position of Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the summer of 2011.