Ownership and Authorship Rights: Its Relation with the Evolution of Technology
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Date: 2012-09-24

The notion of ownership is intimately tied up with the way  technology produces or reproduces the cultural artefact. With oral production or hand-copied texts, works were attributed to masters.With mass reproduction -- first as printed works, and later as music, films etc -- two different sets of ownership rights were created -- the author and the copyright owner. With digital technology and new ways of reproduction and distribution, the issue of ownership -- of the original work as well as the electronic copy -- has also now become the subject of debate.