From: Jay Campbell <edge@got.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Jay Campbell <edge@got.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 17:14:01 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Patents etc
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>IMHO What's needed is a) a good way of measuring usage and b) a realistic
>attitude on the part of patent holders as to the value of their patents.
>
>A good example of how not to do it is the current mess that governs the
>music indistry (which very similar problems with copying and incorporation
>of material [sampling] all be it in a context of copyright rather than
>patents).
>
>Ted Nelson did a lot of work on this for xanadu and his ideas on
>transcopyright are worth exploring further.
One interesting (but maybe off-topic) facet of client-side applets (a la
Java) is the fact that publishers can define proprietary protocols and file
formats, and change them as often as they want, giving a sort of minimal
protection against casual duplication and re-publishing. With a bit more
work, the formats could make true transclusions efficient and easy to apply,
and help increase the amount of serious/commercial information available to
the public.
This is nothing new, I suppose... Java (from a user point of view) isn't
that much different than IntelligentPad, which from what I understand was
the client system the Xanadu people were working with recently.
--
Jay Campbell - Regional Operations Manager
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