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Aggressive Copyright Positions by Lady Gaga, Burning Man Festival

What's at issue is control, obviously, and the great lengths to which some will go to maintain it, even as they benefit from the wide-open, free-flowing viral information torrent of the Internet.

9 minute read May 27, 2011 at 09:56 AM
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Robert W. Clarida And Robert J. Bernstein
Aggressive Copyright Positions by Lady Gaga, Burning Man Festival

Grammy-winning pop singer and “fame monster” Lady Gaga, and the annual avant-garde Burning Man festival have recently taken unusually aggressive copyright positions against people (like photographers and festival attendees) who dare to feature or refer to them in works of authorship.

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