In the publishing business copyrights are still extremely important. According to this message at the FIPP site, the World Association of Newspapers and some other publishers interest groups have come up with an Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP): form of copyright control on the Web. Will this standard enhance the amount of quality content on the net?
Probably it will because the standard will enable publishers to control who has rights to see what part of the content. But aren’t copyrights an artefact of pre-WWW times? Read the rest of this entry »
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