Intent of Copyright (U.S.A.)

The Intent of Copyright Protection

is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts,
- so authors get a mini-monopoly as one inducement to develop new work,
- but copyright is limited when it appears to conflict with the overriding public interest of encouraging further development;

is not to promote the author's own interests or increase the author's own wealth.

Next: What Are Copyrights?
Back: Origin of Copyright Protection.
Up: Outline of This Session.

Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 1996-1997 by Carol Scheftic. All rights reserved. (I originally developed these pages while working at The Geometry Center and they have been adapted for this workshop with permission.) Please send comments on this page, or requests for permission to re-use material from this page, to: scheftic@geom.umn.edu

Page established 1-Jan-96; last updated Sunday, 13-Jul-1997 19:38:58 CDT.