Re: Barlow Article in Wired

I thought the article started out well, but fizzled toward the end. I agree with his view that technology will become increasingly important in protecting IP through electronic communications. But I think he misunderstood that copyright law was never the be-all and end-all. For the most part, it merely establishes a legal basis for commercial relationships such as author-publisher, musician-producer, which then are implemented through contracts. I see this metaphor extending into electronic communications, with encryption and software envelopes further limiting the end-user's access and use of the copyrighted material.

Seth Greenstein
<sethg[_at_]access.digex.net> Received on Fri Mar 04 1994 - 14:34:51 GMT