[10054] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
COPYRIGHTS/BENDER
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (CFMSKI@delphi.com)
Sat Feb 5 06:16:10 1994
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 06:15:23 -0500 (EST)
From: CFMSKI@delphi.com
To: com-priv@psi.com
X-Vms-To: INTERNET"com-priv@psi.com"
>> Subject: RE: West sued by Matthew Bender
>>
>> Who cares? What's this got to do with the com-priv list?
>
> The West copyright of federal legal citations is an important issue
>for all those who are interested in access to legal information, and also
>for those who want the opportunty to become publishers of legal
>information products or services, such as expert systems or legal
>databases which are organized around specific legal issues
>(such as communications law).
Let me rewrite that a bit:
The copyright of public documents is THE issue for all those
who are interested in access to any public information.
Anyway, if this list (usually) is about commercialization and privatization
of net, it is about copyright. The owners of the information on the net
will determine who accesses their information and ultimately the structure of
the net. Just as they do now. IMHO, a network setup by universities, NSF,
and r&d departments will give way to a network owned by copyright holders.
Furthermore, consider the commercialization of information now underway:
EDS, Counterpoint, FEDIX, Dialog, Mead Data, the baby bells, etc....
>From Wired: "Why would Rupert Murdoch purchase a relatively small
online service (Delphi) with a mere hundred thousand subscribers?"
"... The News Corporation is more than just another billion-dollar media
company. It is a conglomerate controlled by a single man - Murdoch - who has
a vision for creating an integrated global empire for the production,
distribution, and dissemination of what that emperor coldbloodedly refers
to as "copyright."
-Simson L. Garfinkel (simsong@nextworld.com)
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Wired Online =-= InfoBot Copyright Notice=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Copyright 1993 Wired USA Ltd. All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT is the big issue that may drive everything else. Didn't someone
muse recently about Murdoch/Delphi/baby bell...? I suggest it hasn't
happened yet (What's this Prodigy regional stuff?) because of legislated
separation between content/carrier. The technology exists now to access
everything Murdoch publishes online. Don't you think News Corp keeps the
tapes? As do Gannett, Newhouse, etc...? And that's just the tip of the
iceberg.
Add that to Clipper, GPO/Federal Register via Visa, tv-top black boxes
from your babybells/Microsoft, GATT and "intellectual property rights"
and I can only conclude,
In service to industry.
Chris
Chris Miller cfmski@delphi.com
MaineStreet 207 657 4963 voice
208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 207 657 5078 data
