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The future of ownership in social media

With "Social Media Week" kicking off, we look at the state of services like Twitter.

Fashion Week is done in New York. But Social Media Week is just starting today; it involves 2,500 events in 25 cities. It’s sort of like a conference, with big sponsors like Google, Microsoft, and American Expres, and a lot of networking, panel discussions and performances. As events get underway we wanted to talk a little bit about the state of social media, with Harvard Law Proffesor Jonathan Zittrain. He says we’ve become accustomed to using social data generated by companies like Twitter.

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