5. Is the Current Copyright Framework fit for Purpose in Relation to Writing, Reading, and Publishing in the Digital Age?
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12 septembre 2019
- handle: 10670/1.je50q7
- isbn: 9781783746484
- eisbn: 9791036538087
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Max Whitby, « 5. Is the Current Copyright Framework fit for Purpose in Relation to Writing, Reading, and Publishing in the Digital Age? », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.je50q7
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The regulatory framework controlling the publication, copying and distribution of content evolved in a technological and commercial environment very different to the digital landscape in which we now find ourselves. Our copyright laws were shaped in an age when IP was published in physical form, copying cost money and distribution was far from free. In that context it made practical sense to restrict the right to copy in order to protect the livelihoods of authors and publishers, who had to m...