Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Copyright and authors (07 Oct 2003) This article provides a (very!) brief history of copyright and its philosophy in order to show that the publishers simple view is inaccurate, and suggests that understanding copyrights nature is the first step to solve the problems of copyright in the modern world. Article URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_10/ewing/index.html Read 101 more articles from First Monday sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Democratizing software: Open source, the hacker ethic, and beyond This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy