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Intellectual Property Law

What is Intellectual Property Law? How does it differ from country to country? Why did it come into being? Was it to provide an incentive for publication so that created works may be built on and used? Was it as a method of providing support to those who create by granting temporary monopoly? Are these functions being fulfilled by current IP law, and what alternative models might accomplish these ends better?

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