Branscomb thinks it will be hard to resolve this “culture clash between the academic community, which is used to general access, and the business community, which is paying on a per-use basis, per piece of information.”
Predictor: Branscomb, Anne Wells
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Newsweek, reporters Barbara Kantorowitz and Andrew Cohen quote Anne Wells Branscomb. They write: ”Others say that just changing the law won’t change freewheeling online customs. In her new book, ‘Who Owns Information?,’ Anne Wells Branscomb, a communications and computer lawyer, explains that because the laws governing cyberspace are unclear, electronic pioneers have been ‘carving out their own information domains in much the same way that pioneers homesteaded the Western frontiers.’ Since copying is so easy, Branscomb says, the common practice is ‘first-come, first-served’ and ‘what is yours is mine.’ Some advocates, such as Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation in Cambridge, Mass., say that copyrights inhibit the development of good software. Branscomb thinks it will be hard to resolve this ‘culture clash between the academic community, which is used to general access, and the business community, which is paying on a per-use basis, per piece of information.'”
Biography:Anne Wells Branscomb, an expert in technology and the law, was the author of “Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access” (Basic Books, 1994), and the 1995 Yale Law Journal article “Anonymity, Autonomy, and Accountability as Challenges to the First Amendment in Cyberspaces.” (Legislator/Politician/Lawyer.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Copyright/Intellectual Property/Plagiarism
Name of publication: Newsweek
Title, headline, chapter name: My Info is Not Your Info: Publishers and Government Call for Protection Against Online ‘Data Snatchers’
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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