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Digital Copyright Issues in Academic Publishing (Groklaw)
Groklaw presents
an article by Roy Bixler entitled Digital Copyright Issues in
Academic Publishing. "As technology affects publishers of all
kinds, whether the medium is video, audio or print, it is interesting to
see how the publishers adapt to the changing environment. The primary
challenge lies with the ease of making digital copies of works and the
implications that has for the application of copyright law. Laws like the
Digital Millienium Copyright Act in the US, which enforce technical
restrictions on making copies, are well-known and are primarily associated
with the music and film industries. However, due to the market failure of
e-books, technological change has not been as quick to affect the print
medium."
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Digital Copyright Issues in Academic Publishing (Groklaw) Posted Feb 15, 2006 15:53 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] Until the people involved on the commercial side acknowledge in public that the "piracy" they always allege they're trying to stem with Digital Right To Make A Lot Of Money Management is not now and likely never will actually be stopped by it, and that they're merely doing it to attempt to make more money by depriving legal buyers of their Fair Use rights technically, this issue will never be resolved.
Perhaps we'll see more honesty on this point from the academics involved in this instance, but I sort of doubt it.
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