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by Anna MANCINI, Ph. D
Copyright laws worldwide were created for a publishing world where books were tangible, printed in a limited number
and sold within territory based markets. Technological changes are giving place to a new book market where books are
intangible, exist in unlimited number of copies and travel worldwide in an increasingly global market. In this emerging
global book market made possible by the conjunction of the Internet, e-book technologies, DRM and print on demand
devices, the three important legal concepts traditionally used in copyright laws have become obsolete: territory, property
and the Aristotelian idea of justice. These three concepts were well suited to the tangible book market but are no longer
for the virtual book market where persons matter more than objects. This book invites the reader to explore the specific
functioning of the virtual economy. It proposes guidelines to modernize copyright law so that it can foster an adequate
use of new communication technologies. For the first time in History, the humankind has acquired a technology that
allows to create a world of information affluence and freedom of speech or its opposite.
This book explains why the option for abundance and freedom must prevail, how the law can support this movement
and what would be, to the contrary, the disastrous consequences of the other option. This book goes beyond a simple
reflection on the book market and considers the choice of society, even of civilization implied by the use, right or
wrong, of the new communication technologies.
Anna MANCINI, Ph. D, is a specialist in intellectual property laws and Internet law and has published several books
on these subjects. She has worked with a patent firm in Paris and media companies in Brussesl and taught at university
level. She is the founder of Innovative Justice, a Paris-based research organization on the modernization of law,
created in 1994. The French version of this book received a grant from the French Centre National du Livre (National
Center of Books). Anna MANCINI lives in Paris and New York.
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