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摘要

Sarah Deutsch was working part-time for Bell Atlantic in 1995 when the docu-ment arrived on her desk. She had quit her job at the Washington, D.C.,intel-lectual property law firm Morgan Lewis four years earlier to spend more time with her kids, and the job at Bell Atlantic was perfect. She was working the "plain vanilla" practice of electronic copyright in the days before the Internet became what we know it to be today, allowing her to split her, time between the home and the office. It's hard to imagine her life being any less hectic. But that was about to change. The document was a "green paper"―one of those complex reports issued by government offices exploring the ramifications of current law on a particular field or technology. Law offices are flooded with them, and for Deutsch to find one of the reports in her inbox was nothing out of the ordinary.