Mike Kerr has a new method for copyright holders to protect their online content: Don't block access to it, just make it impossible to copy or print. He specifically recommends the technology, Copyseal, for publishers willing to allow free online previews or reading but unwilling to allow further distribution. (This is roughly the model already used by ebrary, though ebrary implements it through a browser plug-in and Copyseal through the publisher's server.) Copyseal will launch when Kerr finishes the pricing model.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/07/2002 03:04:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
