Re: UKNM: Legal implications on the web

[Ray Taylor]

Giles Turnbull <

gilesgorjuss [dot] com

> said:


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

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


> 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.


Sure, every new technology makes crime a lot easier for the criminal. I

don't think there was a single case of someone photocopying a book before

the photocopier was invented.


But the legal rules are still the same, and should not be dependent on the

technology, as they would then have to be changed more and more frequently

and lawyers and legislators are expensive time wasters.


If intellectual property is becoming easier to create and distribute, then

it is becoming correspondingly less valuable. So what's the problem? If you

create something valuable and leave it where a crook can easily find it and

steal it, that's your problem, not the technology's, not the law's.


So the invention of video is going to put the film business out of business?

Most UKNMers are too young to remember that thread, of course.


Ray Taylor



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