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Article: COPYRIGHT LAWS TO ENTER DIGITAL AGE.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- December 2, 1996
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Byline: Peter H. Lewis The New York Times
Copyright laws are under technological siege. Intended to ensure a financial return to those who create everything from poetry to computer software, as well as reasonable public access to such material, the current laws may be unequal to the task.
Copies of the latest Madonna song, a computer spreadsheet or a telephone directory can all be duplicated and distributed on the Internet at the click of a computer mouse, often with little regard for the legal rights of the owners of their copyrights.
Now, for the first time in the age of the personal computer and the Internet, copyright experts from 160 ...