Media Minutes for January 30, 2009
Producer: Stevie Converse and Candace Clement
Length: 5:02

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Building a fiber optic broadband network is expensive, so why not add the conduits when we dig new roads and repair old ones? And a new movie highlights the controversies surrounding copyright, intellectual property and music.

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