Copyright complicance in the electronic age: Conceptual issues |
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| Authors: | John R Garrett |
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| Institution: | (1) Corporation for National Research Instiatives, 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100, 22091 Reston, VA |
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| Abstract: | This article focuses on several conceptual and structural issues that are central to copyright compliance in the electronic
age. It presumes the development of a national electronic network for storing, organizing, accessing, managing, and charging
for information. The article first discusses the implications of constructing a comprehensive electronic “highway,” or Digital
Library System (DLS), which would link information to the widespread community of users. It then presents the ramifications
of a highly decentralized set of subsystems serving rights holders and users, linked by protocols established by the DLS.
A discussion of the implications of digital interchangeability for copyright follows. The article ends with an analysis of
alternatives to existing intellectual property rights conveyance systems, and concludes that current ownership structures,
and systems for conveying rights and royalties, will remain the foundation for copyright in the electronic world.
This article appeared in a slightly different form in theProceedings of the Twelfth National Online Meeting—1991, and is published here with the permission of Learned Information, Inc., Medford, N.J. |
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