Bill Langham
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:07:32 -0700
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Subject: CPSR-GLOBAL digest 652
CPSR-GLOBAL Digest 652
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Whose Information Age??? (@)
by Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu> (by way of marsha-w@uiuc.edu (Marsha
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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 12:19:19 -1200
From: Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu> (by way of marsha-w@uiuc.edu (Marsha
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Subject: Whose Information Age??? (@)
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Edupage, 14 September 1997.
"INFORMATION AGE?". . .FOR WHOM?
Project Gutenberg founder Michael S. Hart says he is disturbed by copyright
legislation in Congress which would extend all current copyrights by 20
years with no provision for maintaining the public domain. "To add 20 years
to copyright creates a Landed Gentry of the Information Age," he says. The
public domain is an inalienable right of the public which cannot be a
commodity to be bought or sold, either by persons or by their government.
"Copyright extension destroys both the concept and content of the public
domain." (Time 15 Sep 97)
THE PROLIFERATION OF ISPs AND OTHER AMUSING STATISTICS
According to Boardwatch magazine, the number of Internet service providers
in the U.S. and Canada has mushroomed from 1,447 in February 1996 to 4,133
in August 1997. Presumably, all those ISPs are staying busy handling the
2.7 trillion e-mail messages that will be sent this year, with e-mail
numbers projected to rise to 6.9 trillion in 2000. None of this
connectivity comes cheap: end users spent $19 billion on Internet and
intranet products last year, roughly $1,000 for each of the 20 million
individuals who consider the Internet "indispensible." (Internet Index #19,
10 Sep 97)
Edupage is written by John Gehl <gehl@educom.edu> & Suzanne Douglas
<douglas@educom.edu>. Telephone: 770-590-1017
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