The rights and wrongs of digital books

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two [creative expression and physical property] and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics...."

Link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11693222

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.copyright oa.books

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:37

Date published:

11/05/2010, 14:59