WWW: Beyond the Basics

9. Intellectual Property on the World Wide Web

by Kelly R. Hanood

ABSTRACT

The amount of information and the number of places to visit on the World Wide Web (WWW) has grown so rapidly that it is virtually impossible to keephttp://hci.ise.vt.edu/~jreiss/wwwbtb/chap10/ up with every article, picture, idea and piece of software published. Because of this it is difficult to protect these components of intellectual property. This chapter will discuss what intellectual property is, who owns it and how it can or cannot be protected. Because the current intellectual property laws are becoming outdated by technology, President Clinton formed a Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) to investigate and review these laws. Their findings and recommendations are in a report entitled "Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure". This chapter will explain their findings and how their recommendations might affect the WWW as it is today.

CHAPTER CONTENT

  1. Introduction
  2. Copyright Basics
    1. History
    2. Copyright Components
    3. Excluscive Rights
  3. The Copyright Evolution
    1. Introduction
    2. Developments
    3. Court Cases
  4. The Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights
    1. Background
    2. Green Paper
    3. White Paper
  5. NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995
    1. Introduction
    2. Major Revisions
    3. Effects on the Web
  6. Concerns and Related Issues

    References

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Kelly Hanood <hanood@simon.cs.vt.edu>
27 October 1996