CBC Radio: Ideas 20081008
Who Owns Ideas?
When you download music or text from the web, you may be innocently breaking the law. Jim Lebans, a producer with CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks, looks at the tangled world of intellectual property and how the digital age is challenging ideas about who owns our culture.
A revealing discussion of the origins of the notion of copyright, and the extension of protection to copyright holders ad absurdum.