It should have been a restful few days as the faculty of MIT's famous Media Lab arrived at the Maryland shore last July for their annual retreat. But the brainstorming and rejuvenation session-including meetings aboard a Chesapeake Bay sailing schooner-soon ran into turbulent waters. The issue: whether impending changes in the lab's intellectual property (IP) rules could destroy the facility's special character.

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