Re: Author's Rights

Martha Luerman:
>
> In order to foster creativity you must compensate the creators. In a
> market economy that means you must give them some control over the
> market for their works. You can no longer depend on the difficulty
> of copying to give that market protection. In fact, the Statute of
> Anne was a recognition that the technology advances of that time (the
> printing press) had outstripped the means of protection afforded in
> the previous eras.

Me: FWIW I wrote a short piece discussing, among other things, the relation of legal to technological protection: see

   <http://www.urich.edu/~jolt/v1i1/hardy.html>

I make the same point with lots more words in another article:

   <http://law.lib.uchicago.edu/forum/hardy.html>

> I have been hoping that the music industry, which was the first to have
> to deal with the increased ease of copying, may provide the rest of us
> with a model to handle the problem, but I understand that ASCAP and its
> method of licensing and royalty treatment is having a lot of problems.

What sort of problems are you referring to?

Trotter Hardy
<thardy[_at_]facstaff.wm.edu>

    Trotter Hardy / William & Mary / (804) 221-3826 Received on Wed Apr 10 1996 - 19:35:14 GMT