Re: copyright under stress

From: Dodi Schultz <SCHULTZ[_at_]compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:32:54 -0400

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ewan Kirk <ewan.j.kirk[_at_]solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> [...]
> sure, new technology has allowed easier, cheaper, less detectable
> infringements of copyright, but it's swings and roundabouts --
> technology has presented the opportunity for creators to more
> actively assert their rights; metered access, pay-per-view,
> encryption technology, etc.

Possibly, if the copyright holder is a multimedia company. But it has done nothing for the huge mass of individual creators -- individual artists, writers, photographers, and so on.

--Dodi Schultz
  <schultz[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 23:35:04 GMT

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