Strong Copyright + "DRM" + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?

(PDF text attached.  -- Seth)

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Subject: "Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital
Dystopia?"Preprint
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 13:46:38 -0500
From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey <at> uh.edu>
To: ACRL Scholarly Communication T.F. <SCHOLCOMM <at> ala.org>

A preprint of my "Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality =
Digital Dystopia?" paper is now available.

http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/DigitalDystopia.pdf

It will appear in Information Technology and Libraries 25, no. 3
(2006).

This quote from the paper's conclusion sums it up:

What this paper has said is simply this: three issues--a dramatic
expansion of the scope, duration, and punitive nature of
copyright laws; the ability of DRM to lock-down content in an
unprecedented fashion; and the erosion of Net neutrality--bear
careful scrutiny by those who believe that the Internet has
fostered (and will continue to foster) a digital revolution that
has resulted in an extraordinary explosion of innovation,
creativity, and information dissemination. These issues may well
determine whether the much-toted "information superhighway" lives
up to its promise or simply becomes the "information toll road"