It should be relatively easy for multimedia publishers to license works, and especially fragments of works, that have little value in isolation. Althought content owners may well be concerned about context, a clip from a song or movie may stimulate demand for the original. A run-time version of a software program may elicit interest in the fully functional original. Abstracts of journal articles can elicit interest in the full text.
Predictor: Kahin, Brian
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 report for the Coalition for Networked Information titled “The Strategic Environment for Protecting Multimedia,” Brian Kahin of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, writes: ”The advent of distributed computing over high-bandwidth wide-area networks looks like a worst-case scenario for intellectual property. Owners of content … are understandably fearful of releasing proprietary information to an environment which is lacking in security and has no accepted means for accounting for use and copying … It should be relatively easy for multimedia publishers to license works, and especially fragments of works, that have little value in isolation. Althought content owners may well be concerned about context, a clip from a song or movie may stimulate demand for the original. A run-time version of a software program may elicit interest in the fully functional original. Abstracts of journal articles can elicit interest in the full text.”
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: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Copyright/Intellectual Property/Plagiarism
Name of publication: Coalition for Networked Information
Title, headline, chapter name: The Strategic Environment for Protecting Multimedia
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.cni.org/docs/ima.ip-workshop/Kahin.html
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