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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
  • To: "CommStudios" <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: "DMCA" <dmca_discuss AT lists.microshaft.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Breaking News!
  • Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:05:12 -0800

Hi: This just in. The quote below is from the White Paper, produced in
September, 1995, by our own Bruce Lehman, and presented for Congressional
action in the National Information Infrastructure Copyright Act of 1995.
Better, we attack Disney and RIAA than our own government, eh? And, who
better to read the script?

Thanks,
Tom
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/


http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/

The NII can provide benefits to authors
and consumers by reducing the time between
creation and dissemination. It will open
additional markets for authors. If authors
choose to enter those new markets, it will
provide a wider variety and greater number of
choices for consumers, which should increase
competition and reduce prices. The
availability of these benefits is by no means
assured, however. Authors are wary of
entering this market because doing so exposes
their works to a higher risk of piracy and
other unauthorized uses than any of the
traditional, current modes of dissemination.
Therefore, authors may withhold their works
from this environment. Further, even if
authors choose not to expose their works to
this more risky environment, the risk is not
eliminated. Just one unauthorized uploading
of a work onto a bulletin board, for instance
-- unlike, perhaps, most single reproductions
and distributions in the analog or print
environment -- could have devastating effects
on the market for the work.

Thus, the full potential of the NII will
not be realized if the education, information
and entertainment products protected by
intellectual property laws are not protected
effectively when disseminated via the NII.
Creators and other owners of intellectual
property rights will not be willing to put
their interests at risk if appropriate
systems -- both in the U.S. and
internationally -- are not in place to permit
them to set and enforce the terms and
conditions under which their works are made
available in the NII environment. Likewise,
the public will not use the services
available on the NII and generate the market
necessary for its success unless a wide
variety of works are available under
equitable and reasonable terms and
conditions, and the integrity of those works
is assured. All the computers, telephones,
fax machines, scanners, cameras, keyboards,
televisions, monitors, printers, switches,
routers, wires, cables, networks and
satellites in the world will not create a
successful NII, if there is no content. What
will drive the NII is the content moving
through it.



  • [Community_studios] Breaking News!, tom poe, 04/02/2002

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