Issues Magazine
Articles about intellectual property
Prosumption, Property and Public Policy in the Digital Realm
By Rebecca Watkins and Mike Molesworth
Emerging digital technologies are transforming consumer cultures, but many consumers overlook the restrictions on the use and ownership of content they have created.
Five Major Trends
By Mark R. Anderson
A surprisingly small number of major trends are serving as primary drivers of the world today. Two of these are new, and two more have not yet been properly defined, but all are remarkable in their impact.
Privacy vs Lunacy: More Destruction, Lower Cost
One of the great, and perhaps most tragic, trends driving world events today is the increasing ability of the small and misguided to create ever larger amounts of destruction and death. While many people focus on the appropriately frightening spread of nuclear weapons, this is only the tip of the techno-terror iceberg, as many recent events have proven.
Never before have so few been able to kill so many. We have now also crossed a line beyond which we will never, as a species, return.