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Date: 1998-10-31
Projekt Gutenberg bedroht-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Jubel aus. Mit blankem Entsetzen haben die Betreiber des Projekts Gutenberg und anderer freier Weltbibliotheken reagiert. Audio- & Videocaster müssen weit höhere Gebühren abführen, als Kabel, Tv & Radio. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Adam Clayton Powell 10.30.98 The two-day-old U.S. copyright law, originally presented as an anti-piracy measure, is imposing unanticipated new restrictions on journalists, broadcasters and librarians. President Clinton signed the new Copyright Act into law Wednesday. It was the culmination of months of hard lobbying by the major Hollywood studios to increase charges for use of copyrighted material online. But the true price of the new law, both in new mandatory financial payments and in restrictions on the free flow of news and information, is only now becoming clear. The burgeoning use of audio and video over the Internet will be hit hard by new mandatory fees far higher than those paid by cable or over-the-air broadcasters. Some content now routine on all-news radio stations and such television services as CNN and MSNBC could now be illegal on the Internet. .... For example, the recording industry can now restrict the choice of music anyone can play over the Internet, by setting ceilings on the number of times certain songs can be played. No such controls now exist on broadcast or cable television or radio. .... The new law is having a chilling effect on the free flow of printed information: Educational Web sites can now be prosecuted for distributing information online that has until now been freely available at public libraries and on library Web sites. One Web site devoted to classic literature, Eldritch Press, notified readers on its home page that the new law would force it to close next month. "This site will be shut November 11, 1998, as a direct result of the chilling effect of the series of laws regarding copyright and the Internet passed by the U.S. Congress," read the notice. "We no longer see a future for us as individuals to construct a free public library for the world on the Internet." The American Library Association months ago predicted that the new law would threaten the American tradition of free flow of information, and librarians now face new expanded federal regulations. ... One Web site operator vowed to defy the spirit of the law while observing its letter. "I'm going to post 72 books today, just to say, 'Take that!' " said Michael Hart, a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and director of Project Gutenberg free book site, in an interview with The New York Times. Hart's site features 1,700 books, all in the public domain and posted by volunteers, and he said he was worried about the future availability even of old texts. According to Hart, books that "squeaked by" just before the new law took effect include Ulysses, by James Joyce, and Samuel Butler's translation of Homer's The Odyssey. ... The Clinton administration maintained that the more-onerous provisions of the bill were changed before it was passed by Congress. And in Hollywood, major movie studios uncorked the champagne to celebrate the new law, the result of months of high pressure by movie makers and record companies, most now owned by those same studios. "This gives us enough confidence that our ability to use the digital domain to encrypt, encode and scramble our works can truly protect our properties," Time Warner Senior Vice President Tim Boggs, the company's chief lobbyist, told the Los Angeles Times in a story headlined "Company Town: Congress Puts Power Behind Hollywood's Goals." ..... full text http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1998/10/30webcasts .asp source http://www.nytimes.com - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-10-31 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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