A strict liability rule would stifle the development of hybrid-publishing environments.
Predictor: Kahin, Brian
Prediction, in context:In testimony at a Sept. 22, 1994, public hearing on “Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure,” Brian Kahin, general counsel for the Interactive Media Association, says: ”As multimedia products and services become increasingly networked, the opportunities and benefits of incorporating use-generated information increase. A strict liability rule would stifle the development of hybrid-publishing environments.”
Biography:Brian Kahin was a coauthor of “Public Access to the Internet,” a 1995 collection of papers on Internet-access issues produced by the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, for which he was founding director. He had helped found the Interactive Multimedia Association in 1988. In the early 1990s, he also was the author or editor of “Building Information Infrastructure (McGraw-Hill, 1992), “The Information Infrastructure Sourcebook” (published by the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project 1993-1995) and “Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure” (with Janet Abbate; MIT Press, 1995). (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: September 22, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Copyright/Intellectual Property/PlagiariCopyright/Intellectual Property/Plagiarism
Name of publication: The Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights Information Infrastructure Task Force
Title, headline, chapter name: Testimony on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright.ima.txt
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