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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)
Copyright on the Internet

 by Magnus Hultgren
Global Electronic Journalism, February 1998
Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK)
Stockholm University
Copyright is a vast field, so I will be concentrating on a few recent cases which I have come across. I will also try to give a brief explanation of what is legal and what is not. URLs and a short description of what I did can be found at the end of this document.

There are at least two conflicting opinions about copyright on the Internet:
  • Why publish anything on the internet if you want to keep your copyright? Why publish anything if you do not want it to be public?
  • If Internet publishing is ever to be profitable, there must be ways to make money.
So far, when there are very few ways of actually protecting your copyright, the two rhetorical questions have been valid--even though it is a quite careless way of putting it. However, that is changing. The second opinion is rapidly gaining strength as business interests take to the Internet.

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