Re: consortium to discuss electronic storage

> At 10:49 AM 9/19/93 -0400, Trotter Hardy wrote:
> > ...What is
> >NEW about copyright and electronic information?
>

Glenn Tenney replies:
>
> And that is the simple answer to your question: Copyright law never
> imagined a time / technology where every copy would be as good as the
> original, and could be done virtually instantly and at virtually no cost.
>

But this is exactly why one has a copyright LAW: in cases where the technology makes copies very commercially advantageous otherwise. If the technology did not permit good quality copies, at low cost, there would be no need for a copyright law. Copyright came in with the printing press, not the quill pen.

        --Trotter Hardy

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