Cybercitizens Need for Copyright Predrag Pale Copyright the

Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright Predrag Pale

Copyright Ü the wish of an individual (and/or institution) Ü to protect own information product from change abuse and misuse Ü to gain and restrict financial benefit of own previous work Predrag Pale Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

The world copyright comes from Ü to publish is difficult – technologically, organizationally expensive – financially, time-vise exclusive – small number of authors and publishers – monopolies limited – limited reach of information – geographically – by interest – filtered, censored Predrag Pale Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

The world copyright is going to Ü to publish is simple inexpensive broadly available unlimited Ü publisher is often not needed Ü the motivation to publish is not always financial profit Predrag Pale Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

Almost impossible to enforce the copyright Ü once released into the Net copied and stored for technical reasons w proxies, local caches, back-up, archives Ü illegal copies popping up on servers and vanishing Ü translations in other languages impossible to detect copies automatically Ü impossible Predrag Pale to identify the violator Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

Document protection Üa general need also outside of scope of copyright Ü today digital signature Ü tomorrow public trusted "archives" Ü new methods and systems will provide authorship verification integrity verification acceptable use policy determination Predrag Pale Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

"Open source" philosophy Ü to Ü as Ü in "sell" a "product" I need to make a "package" I need to maintain it byproduct of my work bits and pieces useful to others I will NOT lose anything by sharing them my work I would like to use other people's bits and pieces Ü therefore I publish many things for free and feel good when other people use them Predrag Pale Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

Payments Ü digital cash highly secure payment w due to low risk no fear to pay w due to anonymity very easy to pay w digital valet: an agent on MY computer micro payments possible w very cheap payments Ü it is safe, easy, fast and cheap to pay Ü even the smallest amounts: 10 cents Predrag Pale Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

Conclusion Ü everyone is an author great variety of works published Ü publishing is cheap direct relationship between author and audience Ü copyright need is NOT growing at least not proportionally Ü alternatives for protection trusted public "archives" Ü consumers change micro payments Predrag Pale needs behavior Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

Thus, copyright is going to Ü have decreased importance Ü only for specific publishers authors work Predrag Pale Cybercitizen's Need for Copyright LIDA 20001. , Dubrovnik

Problems of enforcing copyright in Cyberworld globally will NOT present an obstacle for use and development of publishing of all kinds in Cyberworld

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