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Art SpiegelmanProperty Values
In a cut-and-paste society, the way information travels is rapidly changing, but copyright laws are staying the same. Novelist Jonathan Lethem, cartoonist Art Spiegelman and Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan debate the evolving role of intellectual property laws. Plus: Richard Brodsky makes a pitch for the Attorney General's race, Michael Hudson on the real costs of real estate and listeners' calls on the impending immigrant strike.
Over the Barrel
Ron Scherer, New York bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor
-on the background and response to high gasoline prices.
» Christian Science Monitor website
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Richard Brodsky,New York assemblyman (D-86th District-Westchester County),
- why he wants Eliot Spitzer's old job
» Richard Brodsky's campaign
The Trouble with Bubbles
Michael Hudson, professor of economics at University of Missouri - Kansas City and author, Superimperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Pluto Press; 2nd edition, 2003)
- thinks excessive mortgage debt is bad for society
» Michael Hudson's website
Property Values
Art Spiegelman, comic artist, author of In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon, 2004)
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Jonathan Lethem, author of the novels, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday, 1999) and The Fortress of Solitude (Faber & Faber, 2003)
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Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at NYU; author, Copyrights and Copywrongs: the Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001)
- debate the role of intellectual property in a cut-and-paste society
» COMEDIES OF FAIR U$E event at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
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