Copyright Law Tackles Yet Another Challenge: The Electronic Frontier of the World Wide Web

Abstract

The Internet has seen an explosion of popularity over the past few years. Government workers and university scholars of yesterday's Internet must now share today's Information Superhighway with big business, commercial industry, and hundreds of thousands of recreational users. With the growing popularity of the Internet, incidents of online fraud, theft, piracy, and infringement have grown correspondingly.

Keywords: copyright law, infringement, implied license, fair use, digital publishing, electronic publishing, internet technology, online, author rights, reproduction, distribution, WWW, original works