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Dear All

I�m a research fellow in IP law at University of Cambridge, and am
requesting your views on a subject which I have been asked to address before
a fairly sophisticated group. The actual question is something like "Who
Will Own What IPRs: Legal Implications of Emerging Information Technologies
For British Business," with the emphasis on government policy decisions that
will have to be taken soon.

In any case, I�ve often benefited in the past from informal discussions with
colleagues on points of law and practice, and (with some hesitation) I
thought this might be an opportune moment to try out the process in
cyberspace. Just to be crystal clear and avoid any unnecessary
unpleasantness, I should say that I am familiar with the literature and
jurisprudence and am certainly not asking anyone to do my work.. I just
thought it might be interesting to solicit views in this forum on the issues
that you yourself think will raise the important questions of policy in the
next decade or so relative to the question posed.

I would be grateful to anyone who would care to respond. If you are
affiliated with any particular industry group or organisation, please advise
me of that as well - it wouldn�t detract from your opinion but would be
interesting to note. If the responses warrant it, I thought it might be nice
to include in the presentation some reflection that this discussion took
place and whether any consensus of opinion was reached on any of the issues
one way or another.

I would prefer reply by e-mail unless this would be a topic that others feel
is of sufficient general interest to be addressed openly here.

Best wishes to all

David Freedman
cdf25@cam.ac.uk

Herchel Smith Research Fellow in the Law of Intellectual Property
Emmanuel College
University of Cambridge