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Summary 1: What Transcopyright Is
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- Subject: Summary 1: What Transcopyright Is
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- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 02:06:01 JST
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Summary 1: What Transcopyright Is
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Transcopyright is a LIGHTWEIGHT, FAIR, SIMPLE solution
to the copyright problem.
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TRANSCOPYRIGHT ASSUMES--
SELF-PUBLISHERS NEED A SIMPLE SYSTEM
VOLUNTARY on part of publisher and/or author
LOW ROYALTIES (this is not for Expensive Newsletters)
THEFT NOT A GREAT DANGER
(the volume of stuff that will be available is HUGE,
nobody can steal any significant portion)
ATMOSPHERE OF FAIRNESS (very clean, probably acceptable
to law-abiding corporations wishing to purchase material)
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"TRANSCOPYRIGHT" is A PERMISSION DOCTRINE, ENCAPSULATED
IN A WORD (like "Shareware").
Transcopyright is a specific permission by a copyright holder
for the re-use of on-line materials in new documents and objects,
PROVIDED
that only the pointer (we're calling it at the moment "xurl")
is transmitted by a republisher,
SO THAT
each final recipient sends for the quoted material him/herself.
BENEFITS OF TRANSCOPYRIGHT WITHOUT ROYALTY:
CREDIT to author,
NOTHING MISQUOTED,
COURTESY TO AUTHOR OF MAKING THE ORIGINAL AVAILABLE,
NOTHING OUT-OF-CONTEXT (VIRTUALLY)
since each user has the address where the original context
is to be found;
AUTHOR CAN MAKE CHANGES (or notify readers that changes exist).
ADDITIONAL BENEFIT OF TRANSCOPYRIGHT WITH ROYALTY:
Payment to publisher / author.
(It should be VERY SMALL ROYALTY-- on the order of
200 nanobucks per text character or 18000 nanobucks per
video frame; these are REAL-WORLD FIGURES FOR EXISTING MEDIA,
per copy.)
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Problem with Transcopyright: some adjustments are needed,
including NEW FORMS OF DATA TREATMENT IN PROTOCOL AND BROWSER.
(Not to mention micropayment.)
Thus we have to discuss the Protocol issues.
See next email.
Ted
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Theodor Holm Nelson
Founder of Interactive Media | Founder of Network Publishing
Tel. 415/ 331-4422, Fax 415/ 332-0136
In Japan:
Research Fellow, Sapporo HyperLab
and
Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University
New Fax (from the States) 011 81 11 807-6062
e-mail ted@xxxxxxxxxx
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