The entire body of copyright law and practice is being examined in light of the ease of copying and distribution in the electronic age. In any case, it is clear that digital library systems will need to address issues of copyright and intellectual property rights before they can be widely deployed.
Predictor: Masinter, Larry
Prediction, in context:Larry Masinter, at the time a principal engineer at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, made the following remarks in a research presentation at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. Masinter had worked in the area of document-management-system architecture since 1988, he was involved with the Web standards groups from their inception, and he had been active in research in regard to digital libraries since 1993. He says: ”In the library setting, the identity of the user and authorization for access isn’t so much the issue as is the copyright of the material being served. The right to retrieve an electronic copy is being dealt with quite differently from similar rights for physical copies. In fact, the entire body of copyright law and practice is being examined in light of the ease of copying and distribution in the electronic age. In any case, it is clear that digital library systems will need to address issues of copyright and intellectual property rights before they can be widely deployed.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Libraries/Databases
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/243/html/paper.html#BIO
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