Issue of CIO Web Business Magazine Web activists say information wants to be free.
Federal law says much of it already is.
For online database publishers, that means hard work doesn't always pay. By Wayne D. Bennett Our print publication is free to qualified readers. Most of us are too cheap and lazy to copy traditional books onto more dead trees, but digital publishers know their rights can be defiled with the click of a mouse. For starters, data on the Web can be changed nearly as fast as it changes in the real world. But for a business whose carefully crafted product is a database, the Web has a couple of trouble spots.