Copyright gone Mad

Rob Slade has a very sobering article in the current Risks-Digest about something that might happen to anyone who has published work and writing online. Asked to write a book about the history of computer viruses Slade, quite naturally, used and extended writing that he's done on the topic for nearly 20 years. The publisher has a policy of not publishing material that's appeared on the internet, so the book may not be published because the author has reference his own material.

Slade's short article is worth reading, and he has a very good attitude about the whole thing. But I can't help wondering what's next on the copy-right, wrong, and automated copyright management horizon? Are we having fun yet?

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