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Bollier, David – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses the control of digital content and the stakes for libraries and our democratic culture. Highlights include copyright term extension, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, use of contract law to limit the public domain, database legislation, trademarks versus the public domain, the void in our cultural vocabulary, and the concept of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Copyrights, Databases, Democracy