Summary 1: What Transcopyright Is

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Summary 1: What Transcopyright Is

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Transcopyright is a LIGHTWEIGHT, FAIR, SIMPLE solution
 to the copyright problem.

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TRANSCOPYRIGHT ASSUMES--
 SELF-PUBLISHERS NEED A SIMPLE SYSTEM
 VOLUNTARY on part of publisher and/or author
 LOW ROYALTIES (this is not for Expensive Newsletters)
 THEFT NOT A GREAT DANGER
  (the volume of stuff that will be available is HUGE,
   nobody can steal any significant portion)
 ATMOSPHERE OF FAIRNESS (very clean, probably acceptable
  to law-abiding corporations wishing to purchase material)

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"TRANSCOPYRIGHT" is A PERMISSION DOCTRINE, ENCAPSULATED
 IN A WORD (like "Shareware").

Transcopyright is a specific permission by a copyright holder
 for the re-use of on-line materials in new documents and objects,
PROVIDED
 that only the pointer (we're calling it at the moment "xurl")
 is transmitted by a republisher,
SO THAT
 each final recipient sends for the quoted material him/herself.

BENEFITS OF TRANSCOPYRIGHT WITHOUT ROYALTY:
 CREDIT to author,
 NOTHING MISQUOTED,
 COURTESY TO AUTHOR OF MAKING THE ORIGINAL AVAILABLE,
 NOTHING OUT-OF-CONTEXT (VIRTUALLY)
  since each user has the address where the original context
  is to be found;
 AUTHOR CAN MAKE CHANGES (or notify readers that changes exist).

ADDITIONAL BENEFIT OF TRANSCOPYRIGHT WITH ROYALTY:
 Payment to publisher / author.
(It should be VERY SMALL ROYALTY-- on the order of
 200 nanobucks per text character or 18000 nanobucks per 
 video frame; these are REAL-WORLD FIGURES FOR EXISTING MEDIA,
 per copy.)

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Problem with Transcopyright: some adjustments are needed,
 including NEW FORMS OF DATA TREATMENT IN PROTOCOL AND BROWSER.
(Not to mention micropayment.)

Thus we have to discuss the Protocol issues.
 See next email.


Ted
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Theodor Holm Nelson
 Founder of Interactive Media | Founder of Network Publishing
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In Japan:
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 and
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