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For a more detailed accounting of Stallman's views regarding copyright as extended to fields outside of software, readers are urged to go to the GNU web site, and to Stallman's personal site. In particular, readers might want to look at &ldquo;Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks&rdquo; presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 19 April 2001. Discussing his views on copyright as extended to non-software fields, Stallman mentioned, in the interview, &ldquo;Those are ideas that I came to after some years of working on free software. People asked me the question, &lsquo;How do these ideas extend to other kinds of information,&rsquo; so in the 90s I started thinking about the question. This speech gives my thought on the question.&rdquo;