The web desperately needs some alternative protection for authors. The revenue model can be built into the web technology, bypassing the need for legislative protection. The role of legislation should be to cover eventual holes that the technology leaves behind when it comes to protecting intellectual property, and to maximize the large-scale creation of ideas and progress.
Predictor: Norderhaug, Terje
Prediction, in context:In a paper presented at the third annual WWW Conference in 1995, Terje Norderhaug and Juliet M. Oberding of Media Design inProgress presented research titled, ÒDesigning a Web of Intellectual Property,Ó in which they assert that web technology undermines the protection of intellectual property. They write: ÒAt the same time, the web makes it easy to make a copy of other’s work and claim authorship. As shown previously, applying today’s copyright legislation to the web is a dead end. However, the web desperately needs some alternative protection for authors. The revenue model can be built into the web technology, bypassing the need for legislative protection. The role of legislation should be to cover eventual holes that the technology leaves behind when it comes to protecting intellectual property, and to maximize the large-scale creation of ideas and progress.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Copyright/Intellectual Property/Plagiarism
Name of publication: WWW Conference '95
Title, headline, chapter name: Designing a Web of Intellectual Property
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.igd.fhg.de/archive/1995_www95/proceedings/papers/95/webip.html
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