Copyrights From the Pages of Copyrights Copyrights are about to become a big political issue. Information is placed online in web sites, on private bulletin boards, on big commercial systems. This same information is taken from those sites and placed on others. No fee is paid for reuse.
Writers contribute pieces to periodicals or books.
Shortly their work is distributed via the Internet, shown on web sites, and offered in file libraries. Again, no fees are paid for this secondary use. Print publishers are disturbed that they solicit and edit articles and immediately lose control over them. Writers are disturbed that many outlets use their work and pay nothing for it. Everyone is agitated about copyrights.