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Feb 2019
54m 38s

189. A Legal History of the Web Era With...

Brian McCullough
About this episode
It’s bothered me for a while that over the 5 years or so of this podcast, we haven’t focused very much on some corners of the history. For example… the legal side? Copyright law? Intellectual property law? How much have we talked about disruption and piracy and filesharing and all that stuff? So, I spoke to Richard Chapo, who has been doing Internet Law sinc ... Show More
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