Before computer spreads all over the world, the publishing industry is relying on physical medium: paper, cassete etc. You need a medium to carry copyrightable contents. And a copyright infringement is typically making physical copies and selling those illegal copies.
About 15 or 20 years ago the evolution of digitalization gains speed. In just a few years, almost all the new works have digital versions. For books, it could be pdf files. For musics, it could be mp3 files. At this stage, consumers usually pay to download a file to their computer and use some special software to view those files. Copyright infringement usually involves illegal exchange of digital files.
In the beginning of music digitizing era, people are still using computers to listen to the music. Although massive illegal download happens, it doesn’t really hurt the sales of CDs. Because compared with CD, it really isn’t very convenient to playback those digital music files. Things changed until the compact size digital player comes out. The digital music player is very small in size compared with CDs. Also it can contain thousands of music. Apple’s ipod bring this almost dead company back to the front line of the IT industry. Apply uses its itune store to sell musics. On February 24, 2010, itune store sold its first 10 billion songs.
However, traditional computer file system is too complicate to understand, and massive files are hard to manage also. In recent years, cloud computing gains attention. Cloud computing have all the files or data stored on a server, with wireless connections (usually 3G) we can access those files using different devices and at different locations. In this scenario, if you want to buy a book, just go to Google Book website, then there’re thousands and millions books ready for you. You can read and comment on it at home while using your home computer, then continue to read it at your office using your office computer. There’s no mess of moving files and remembering last location you’ve read.
People always want simple ways of acquiring information. And it is always new technologies which make the knowledge and information readily available to users win the competition and prevails. Surely, there are controversial legal issues around this area. Google make all the digital books available in their Google Library without permission from the Orphan Books’ authors—which is typically copyright infringement. Google urge to establish a mechanism to utilize all the Orphan Books among private, self-interested parties because it owns the No.1 search engine, and wishes to provide ways to grab all contents into its hand, so that it will be a one stop source of knowledge and information. I agree that we cannot let Google to take the whole cake, but also cannot stop the irresistible trend—though the ASA is creative and practicable, the main executor is not Google, but an independent basis-the unit of Rightsholders. Copyright law’s role is trying to balance between creative incentive and industrial competition.
About 15 or 20 years ago the evolution of digitalization gains speed. In just a few years, almost all the new works have digital versions. For books, it could be pdf files. For musics, it could be mp3 files. At this stage, consumers usually pay to download a file to their computer and use some special software to view those files. Copyright infringement usually involves illegal exchange of digital files.
In the beginning of music digitizing era, people are still using computers to listen to the music. Although massive illegal download happens, it doesn’t really hurt the sales of CDs. Because compared with CD, it really isn’t very convenient to playback those digital music files. Things changed until the compact size digital player comes out. The digital music player is very small in size compared with CDs. Also it can contain thousands of music. Apple’s ipod bring this almost dead company back to the front line of the IT industry. Apply uses its itune store to sell musics. On February 24, 2010, itune store sold its first 10 billion songs.
However, traditional computer file system is too complicate to understand, and massive files are hard to manage also. In recent years, cloud computing gains attention. Cloud computing have all the files or data stored on a server, with wireless connections (usually 3G) we can access those files using different devices and at different locations. In this scenario, if you want to buy a book, just go to Google Book website, then there’re thousands and millions books ready for you. You can read and comment on it at home while using your home computer, then continue to read it at your office using your office computer. There’s no mess of moving files and remembering last location you’ve read.
People always want simple ways of acquiring information. And it is always new technologies which make the knowledge and information readily available to users win the competition and prevails. Surely, there are controversial legal issues around this area. Google make all the digital books available in their Google Library without permission from the Orphan Books’ authors—which is typically copyright infringement. Google urge to establish a mechanism to utilize all the Orphan Books among private, self-interested parties because it owns the No.1 search engine, and wishes to provide ways to grab all contents into its hand, so that it will be a one stop source of knowledge and information. I agree that we cannot let Google to take the whole cake, but also cannot stop the irresistible trend—though the ASA is creative and practicable, the main executor is not Google, but an independent basis-the unit of Rightsholders. Copyright law’s role is trying to balance between creative incentive and industrial competition.
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