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Intellectual Property Issues That Never Occurred to Anybody 10 Years Ago

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2003 11:04 AM

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The AFP reports that Japanese publishers are up in arms about "digital shoplifters" -- readers who "visit bookstores to photograph magazine pages with their cellphones rather than make a purchase."

[Via Todd Morman.]

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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