Breaking The Paper Paradigm: Copyright Exploitation, Government
Controls And The Continuing Viability Of The World Wide Web As A Vehicle
For Education And Research.
Michael Lean m.lean@qut.edu.au
Michael is the Queensland University of Technology 's copyright officer.
Michael says:
Part of my brief is to observe what's going on in the world of online regaulation,
and how these things might affect the developing uses of the Internet. I
maintain both lurker and poster status on a number of lists which look at
issues of censorship, copyright, online law, and cyberculture generally.
I've been observing the growth of the internet and the web, with a great
deal of pleasure, and watching my colleagues develop teaching strategies
as the information world opens up. The dark side of this has been the way
controls are being imposed by governments in ways which indicate that the
users have had little input into the decisions being made, and my fears
that the cybercommunity will be regulated almost out of existence.
Michael says about his paper:
"This paper is essentially a call to arms. In the paper I discuss what's
happening in the world of regulation, and urge people to develop an awareness
of the various threats to the open community of the net. I talk about ways
to become involved, and to be heard. In my paper presentation, I'll be giving
some updates on issues mentioned in the paper, and mentioning some new issues
which have arisen since the paper was written."
Updated on 29 May 1996 by ausweb96@scu.edu.au
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