[118181] in Cypherpunks
iCopyright.com's Model for Publishing on Internet
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Tue Sep 21 13:00:46 1999
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:35:08 -0700
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Info on a company offering a way for publishers to make money by copyrighting pieces of information:
http://www.icopyright.com/about/docs/rip.html
excerpt:
The IP Meter also "tags" the content that has been properly licensed to the user with a unique identification number embedded in the file that is delivered to the user. (See Figure 2.) This tag can track all derivative uses of the original content and allows everyone who receives the licensees derivative use to quickly locate the original material. In this sense, the IP Meter hitches itself to the licensed content. It encourages users to buy their own license to reuse the material. This feature is what makes the RiP model so compelling. It allows an article to be published once, but automatically licensed by millions of different people for their own reuse. Every derivative use becomes a vehicle to sell even more derivative uses.
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