Dear all,
I hesitate to venture into my colleague Charles Oppenheim's territory, but
a student dissertation, supervised by Charles and second-marked by me,
recently made the point that if the copyright militants (my words, not the
student's) in the commercial publishing and informaion industries got their
way, then web-browsing would be at an end.
What can one say about an industry that takes a wonderful new technolgical
tool and tries to hedge it around with so many restrictions that all of its
potential advantages to the user are lost? If they are so paranoid about
people stealing their intellectual property, they have a very obvious
remedy. Don't have a web site at all. Then no one can link to it.
Yours, Fytton Rowland.
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Fytton Rowland, M.A., Ph.D., F.I.Inf.Sc., Lecturer,
Deputy Director of Undergraduate Programmes and
Programme Tutor for Publishing with English,
Department of Information Science,
Loughborough University,
Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK.
Phone +44 (0) 1509 223039 Fax +44 (0) 1509 223053
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http://info.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/frowland.html
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