mong the most fractious debates to have arisen from globalisation and the expanding reach of the internet, is that of copyrights and what they really stand for.

This year is seeing an upheaval in the copyright war. While some believe that copyrights ought to be attributive and not exclusive to the creator (which means that a creator should be properly credited with the work, but the creation should be free to be reused and developed upon by others), others � and perhaps a far stronger lobby � believes in the system of copyrighted work being exclusive to the owner of the copyright, to do as he pleases with. ... more