News.com Is Reporting on the copyright controversy that casts us as villains simply for doing our job.
And you thought Pat Schroeder was bad a few months ago?
\”They\’ve got their radical factions, like the Ruby Ridge or Waco types, who want to share all content for free, said Judith Platt, a spokeswoman for the Association of American Publishers.\”
They say Publishing houses primary targets are now the public library.
You go ahead and worry about filters, or hotels, me, I\’ll be worrying about The DMCA and The AAP. We\’ll see what impacts libraries more.
\”I don\’t see the doomsday of libraries not existing,\” said Wayne Overbeck, a professor of communications at California State University at Fullerton, who\’s been closely watching the digital copyright debates. \”But I do see libraries having a smaller collection. It\’s going to cost a lot more money than ever for libraries to be up to date.\”
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