[118203] in Cypherpunks
Re: iCopyright.com's Model for Publishing on Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Tue Sep 21 21:06:26 1999
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
To: <que_sera@my-deja.com>
cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like Multi-Level Marketing applied to copyrights.
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