Your uncle owns a sandwich shop. He asks you to write an inventory program for him. You are glad to help him and do not charge for the program. The program works very well, and you discover later that your uncle has given copies of several friends who also operate small food shops. Do you believe you should be paid for copies?
No, Because the reason that my uncle gave several copies from other owners of small food shops was instead to be use as a fair use and he is not earning money out of it. And besides the software that I produce inst copyrighted that does not have legality of my software program that supports my property.
Read Articles by Esther Dyson and lance Rose from Wired. Write a short essay telling which author's view about the future of intellectual property in "digital age" are more convincing to you and why?
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