In the Copyright Wars, This Scholar Sides With the Anarchists

NYU's Siva Vaidhyanathan wants to keep the stuff of culture out of the hands of the information oligarchs

By SCOTT CARLSON

New York

Siva Vaidhyanathan, one of academe's best-known scholars of intellectual property and its role in contemporary culture, sits under a portrait of Elvis Presley painted on black velvet and talks about file sharing...

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