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Article: The problem with Orphan Works.(internet use for distributing contents)
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- Information Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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The Internet provides a comparatively simple and inexpensive method for publishing and distributing content. Anyone who can use a server or Web-hosting service and has basic Web creation software, along with some spare time, can become a publisher who could theoretically reach as many readers as the largest traditional publishing company.
A new world of content distribution opens up when you add in digital conversion technologies--that's a world with both positive and negative aspects for owners of copyrighted material. The negative side includes file-sharing, appropriation of graphics and artwork. and pirated software and movies. On the positive side is the ...