Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Library and Hypertext Publishing Systems
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/ipdiglib.html

Samuelson, Pamela and Robert J. Glushko
University of California Berkeley
1993

Abstract:

Computers and the concomitant capability they have provided for making copyrighted works available in digital form in networked environments have created many new kinds of expressive opportunities. Computer technology together with communications technology has enabled authors to create digital libraries and hypertext publishing systems. Active development of such systems is now underway. While some difficult technical problems must be solved to build these systems, technical obstacles are thought to be surmountable. Less clear, however, is what kind of intellectual property scheme can be used to make digital library or hypertext publishing systems commercially viable.