Digital Copyright and the Progress of Science Jessica Litman Keynote Address Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002 Portland, Oregon, USA July 14-18, 2002 Let me start with a truism: Networked digital technology has transformed information and the way we interact with it. Digital information is dynamic rather than fixed. What we think of as documents can change constantly. That challenged our s notions of what it means to archive material. Digital information is ubiquitous rather than scarce. Digital information is extraordinarily accessible. If I have a question, I don need to make up an answer that t seems plausible or reason out what it likely to be. I don need to go to the library and s t ask the reference librarian if I can see the library only copy of a reference book that s ought to have the answer. I can just run upstairs to my computer and look it up on the web. Digital information isshared. Ten years, even five years ago, it was conventional to talk about the Internet as a tool for disintermediation. Authors and musicians would be able to use digital networks for sending stuff directly
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Digital copyright and the progress of science
Litman, Jessica
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 2002
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