The final draft contains the Working Group's recommendations for changes in the United States Copyright Law of 1976. Transmissions would be the exclusive right of the copyright owner. For the Working Group, such a transfer would not be legal between two networked users. The international implications of the recommendations of the Working Group on global access and resource sharing become clear when one considers the Berne Convention. The effect of the Berne Convention is to add rights to material transmitted from a country with less copyright protection to a country with more copyright protection.
Electronic versions are often as good or better than the original.
They can be replicated an infinite number of times with no image degradation. They can be distributed electronically, worldwide, in an instant. But one scribe often produced, legally, a superior copy to that of another, and a photocopying machine may produce a copy that is better than a deteriorating yellowing original with fading print. The IPA paper goes on. Many national and international library groups have argued that they should be able to use digital formats of copyrighted works in the same way as they used printed versions in the past.