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For a growing portion of our society, and especially younger generations, life increasingly revolves around intellectual creativity, entrepreneurship, and the digital domain. General Motors and other manufacturing companies are no longer the largest and most significant economic enterprises. Digital Age startups, such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, provide the social and commerce platforms of daily life. They dominate the business news. Tesla is revitalizing the American automobile industry and revolutionizing automobile transportation. The balance sheets of these companies are not based on tangible resources but rather intangibles – intellectual property rights, information, and human capital. As President Obama emphasized in his final State of the Union Address,1 technological innovation provides the greatest hope for addressing the most pressing human challenges – climate change, public health, food and fresh water supply, and world peace. Social interaction occurs more and more in cyberspace, a seemingly infinite, borderless “place.” And a growing proportion of the most salient “property” rights issues that concern netizens and the U.S. judiciary relate to information resources and digital technology.