Since the start of the internet the rate at which we can connect and share information has surmounted to a capability in which 20 years ago would have seemed impossible, though it has also brought on numerous problems concerning owner ship and copyright. The internet "can facilitate openness and allow for engagement without boundaries."(Hall, 2013) The message Hall was trying to get across is that the internet has brought up a new frontier where all this information is readily available to a user at the click of a finger, but this raises the question "Should information be free?"(Hall, 2013).
Copyright is essential for the publishing industry, without it the author gets no credit for their work, there is no legal claim to the ownership of the work, there is no revenue to compensate the author and the integrity of the work is compromised. There are many debates as to whether copyright is a concept based in print and has no presence in the digital workplace, but the underlining issue is that without copyright there is no incentive for the creator to create their work. One opinion as to why Copyright laws in publishing are not as cutthroat as they are in film, games and music "is that publishers have different relationships with their customers than other industries perhaps less adversarial in some senses, and publishers are thus more concerned than some industries about alienating customers by threatening copyright infringement suits."(Lipton, 2013)
Though when there if there is a demand there will always be a supply, new technologies and software, Digital rights management(DRM) have since been developed to protect the authors work. With some devices, such as the kindle and I-books, you can only read the content of the material if you are viewing it from the appropriate device. Other types of content are protected by new "legal" encryption layers added to the code of the website, only allowing access to the material if rights are owned or bought. But this in its self creates allot of problems for the reader if they are not savvy in e-books and e-book readers, "and are thus prone to buying books that aren't compatible with their reading devices and vice-versa."(Doctorow,2012) generally putting them off digital publishing.
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Hall. (2013). The business of digital publishing. An introduction to the digital book and journal industries. 1st ed. Andover: Routledge Ltd.
Doctorow, C.(2012).Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers. The Guardian. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/may/03/death-of-drm-good-news. Accessed on: 24th November 2014.
Lipton, J.(2013) Digital Publishing and Copyright Infringement. the Madisonian.net. available at: http://madisonian.net/2013/06/15/digital-publishing-and-copyright-infringement/. accessed on 24th november 2014.
Copyright is essential for the publishing industry, without it the author gets no credit for their work, there is no legal claim to the ownership of the work, there is no revenue to compensate the author and the integrity of the work is compromised. There are many debates as to whether copyright is a concept based in print and has no presence in the digital workplace, but the underlining issue is that without copyright there is no incentive for the creator to create their work. One opinion as to why Copyright laws in publishing are not as cutthroat as they are in film, games and music "is that publishers have different relationships with their customers than other industries perhaps less adversarial in some senses, and publishers are thus more concerned than some industries about alienating customers by threatening copyright infringement suits."(Lipton, 2013)
Though when there if there is a demand there will always be a supply, new technologies and software, Digital rights management(DRM) have since been developed to protect the authors work. With some devices, such as the kindle and I-books, you can only read the content of the material if you are viewing it from the appropriate device. Other types of content are protected by new "legal" encryption layers added to the code of the website, only allowing access to the material if rights are owned or bought. But this in its self creates allot of problems for the reader if they are not savvy in e-books and e-book readers, "and are thus prone to buying books that aren't compatible with their reading devices and vice-versa."(Doctorow,2012) generally putting them off digital publishing.
word count: 376
Hall. (2013). The business of digital publishing. An introduction to the digital book and journal industries. 1st ed. Andover: Routledge Ltd.
Doctorow, C.(2012).Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers. The Guardian. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/may/03/death-of-drm-good-news. Accessed on: 24th November 2014.
Lipton, J.(2013) Digital Publishing and Copyright Infringement. the Madisonian.net. available at: http://madisonian.net/2013/06/15/digital-publishing-and-copyright-infringement/. accessed on 24th november 2014.