“Business e-mailers intending to send helpful messages or cover their backs by copying the entire company are flooding in-boxes, straining networks, wasting heaps of time, and possibly, hordes of money.”

“Technology-driven innovation has for decades forced legislators to revisit intellectual property law. But in the past 12 months, Napster and its peer-to-peer brethren have made the distribution and protection of intellectual property in a digital world the most contentious legal debate in recent memory. As co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, professor Pamela Samuelson sits at the academic center of that discussion. She recently sat down with Business 2.0 Online to share her thoughts on a range of subjects, including copyright law on the Internet and how to amend the process of issuing business method patents.”