Re: INFO/NYT: Copyright Was a Quaint Idea In Its Time

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Christopher Gwyn <christopher[_at_]icopyright.com> wrote (IRT the NYT article):
>
> I say that the headline is inaccurate because Copyright is not
> threatened at all -- only the methods that Copyright has been
> enforced are being made irrelevant.

The traditional methods that have enforced copyright have been essentially irrelevant for quite some time. The only real change is in the ease of use -- electronic methods for dissemination of textual information has been available since the first network connections, and indeed one of the very first protocols written was to share and disseminate information "in bulk" -- the File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Mark Charette[_at_]sneezy.org Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 13:14:09 GMT