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Analysis: Case of the [c]ompressed image- II (Newsalert)
The mainstream press
looks at a number of intellectual property issues.
"But the inane expansion of intellectual property rights may merely be a final
spasm, threatened by the ubiquity of the Internet as they are. Free scholarly
online publications nibble at the heels of their pricey and anticompetitive
offline counterparts. Electronic publishing poses a threat -- however distant
-- to print publishing. Napster-like peer-to-peer networks undermine the
foundations of the music and film industries. Open source software is
encroaching on the turf of proprietary applications. It is very easy and
cheap to publish and distribute content on the Internet; the barriers to
entry are virtually nil."
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