To make it faster to load and read,
I made a page for each "case":
Introduction
Copyright and copywrong
"Web piracy"
The N.E.T. Act in the United States
The Church of Scientology cases
The Shetland News hyperlink case
"The day the sites went out in Georgia"
The Digital Object Identifier
Music copyright on the Internet
Are they coming to take me away?
The most recent case
concerning journalists, January 1998
Webography (references)
Procedure (what I did)
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a code that will make it possible for web publishers to keep their links intact even if they restructure their pages and move to a different server. With a DOI code it is also easy to keep the objects connected with the correct copyright information.
The code is included in links for objects or pages and refers the user to a special DOI server that in turn connects the user with the desired object. This means that the address for the object, when the object is moved, need only be altered at one single place: on the DOI server. It is like an ISBN system for the Internet. In fact, for books the DOI can contain the International Standard Book Number.
On their web pages the International Digital Object Identifier Foundation tries to demonstrate the different things that can be achieved with the DOI system by linking to publishers who are taking part in testing it. Unfortunately, none of the links worked when I wanted to try them.
Another attempt at electronically protecting the rights of the copyright holder is the COPICAT project, which is exclusively directed at the copyright part of electronic publishing. Its proposed solution is to make copyrighted material "volatile" when downloaded from the Internet (via encrypted access), so that it does not remain on the reader's computer when the connection is broken-and cannot be copied while the connection is active. The projcect is partially funded by the European Union.
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