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Intellectual Property

Jun. 9, 2001

Chip Shot

SAN FRANCISCO - The war against digital piracy is moving out of the courtroom and into high-tech development labs. Copyright owners hope to combat rampant forms of the practice by equipping all content transmitters - television, computers, music players, CD burners and electronic books - with so-called "copyright chips" designed to regulate the flow and use of content.

By Xenia P. Kobylarz
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - The war against digital piracy is moving out of the courtroom and into high-tech development labs.
        Copyright owners hope to combat rampant forms of the practice by equipping all content transmitters - television, computers, music players, CD burners an...

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