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The Dangers of Digital Rights Management in the United States

  • Auteur-e: Sonia K. Katyal
  • Domaines juridiques: Propriété intellectuelle
  • Proposition de citation: Sonia K. Katyal, The Dangers of Digital Rights Management in the United States, in : Jusletter 7. November 2005
Nearly twenty years ago, in a casual footnote at the end of an important essay, an American property scholar, Charles Donahue, drew a distinction between «property as a sword», and «property as a shield». Donahue’s distinction symbolized an important difference between two facets of the institution – as well as the execution – of property rights; suggesting that property rights can be used for both defensive and offensive purposes in relationships with third parties.

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