ZDnet.com has this article on the copyright issue that has everyone in an uproar.
\”Cyber-rights advocates, open-source evangelists and even librarians met at Stanford Law School on Thursday in an attempt to limit the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 — a piece of legislation that gives music producers, Hollywood studios and software companies unprecedented powers over the use of copyrighted works.\”
ZDnet.com has this article on the copyright issue that has everyone in an uproar.
\”Cyber-rights advocates, open-source evangelists and even librarians met at Stanford Law School on Thursday in an attempt to limit the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 — a piece of legislation that gives music producers, Hollywood studios and software companies unprecedented powers over the use of copyrighted works.\”
\”For librarians, changes to the copyright law could mean that their ability to loan out information sources, or give free access to such sources, would be severely curtailed.\”
\”\”American copyright law is supposed to encourage creativity, but what we are seeing — 200 years later — is a situation where the law discourages the creative process,\” Siva Vaidhyanathan, a faculty fellow in the School of Culture and Communications at New York University, said at a press conference before a meeting whose outcome could handcuff the law.\”
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