At 11:23 AM 6/6/97, Kevin Sheldrake wrote:
>I am currently looking for funding for a D.Phil project I wish to
>start in October researching the protection of copyright of electronically
>distributed material. The crux of the project is the implementation
>of a 'read-but-not-copy' system to allow subscribers / readers to read
>distributed information but not be allowed to copy it through soft/
>hardware constraints.
If you can read it it's on the screen.
If its on the screen any screen capture utility can copy it as a graphic
If its in grapical form an OCR program can put it back into text.
All these capabilities exist for print on paper formats - scan and OCR.
Copyright is not about copying. It is about reward for intellectual effort.
Tony
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