Re: UKNM: Legal implications on the web

[Giles Turnbull]

At 08:47 05/10/00, Ray wrote:

>Copyright and other intellectual property rights are media-independent. The

>same rules apply. To copy, eg, a book, without the author and/or

publisher's

>agreement is an infringement of their rights whether you photocopy the book

>(or any substantial part of it), or key it in and post it up on a web site.


Yes but even if they are media-independent, they are not

technology-independent. Surely one of the most crucial points is that media

of all kinds is becoming easier to create and distribute digitally. MP3s

for music, ebooks for books, and so on.


This change is what has put copyright at risk, because it makes

ignoring/flouting copyright so much easier for the vast majority of

ordinary people.


More thoughts on this here:

http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=75


Giles



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