Копирайт, интернет, история

[arpad]

Таки очень плохо. Потому что все серьезные и хорошие книги по истории защищены и, в результате, в сети отсутствуют. Мусорные конспирологи эффективно пользуются бесплатной трибуной, а сотни блестящих и интересно написанных работ по истории, которые могли бы им противостоять, пылятся на полках.

И ситуация в русском интернете здесь такая же как и везде.

p.s. для тех кто не в танке - я не принадлежу к борцам против копирайта.

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[arpad.livejournal.com]

A, I see.

But I am not an anti-copyright zealot, you know...

Rather opposite. That's why I am worried.

[watertank.livejournal.com]

the real problem is that there's no good business model that would provide for free access to high quality information.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Temporary access based on micropayments would have worked but there are no tools. Strong electronic library system with cheap payments would probably have worked too, like ipod, but it needs to be linked with existing system of publishing and it seems to be impossible even in music...

So we are only at the beginning of the struggle for new standards of information distribution. But it is another story...

[watertank.livejournal.com]

You see, here we are talking about some kind of pay-per-information system, while conspiracy theories on the internet are completey free :)

Btw, Santa Clara county library provides free access to electronic books. http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/electronic_library/

check it out.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

I was under impression it is only for library card holders, aren't it?

[watertank.livejournal.com]

that's right. for some reason i thought you lived somwhere here in the valley :)

the content is managed by www.netlibrary.com , but it belongs to an association of local libraries from around the country.

[dmpogo.livejournal.com]

Somehow this is not the case in physics. So it makes me wonder what is different in humanities.

[watertank.livejournal.com]

Physics textbooks are not free. Popular books on physics are not free either :)

[(Anonymous)]

My remark was on your statement that there is no good business model to provide free high quality information.
There is no problem to get any physics information online for free or at minimal library-level costs (that is not to say that every form of physics information is free)

[watertank.livejournal.com]

The issue is not the cost of publishing the information, but rather who and how gets the benefit of monetizing it. Physics and other hard sciences are monetized through engineering; humanities are monetized through art and books.

[watertank.livejournal.com]

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi touches upon this issue in his book "Creativity". He points out that, for example, theory validation procedures are quite different between, let's say, physics and sociology. Therefore, there's less incentive for a physicist to appeal directly to the general public if his/her theory is not accepted by his/her peers. Also, research results in humanities are much more accessible to non-specialists. This means they have a relatively high commercial potential when packaged as a book.