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COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:
DUTCH PERSPECTIVES
F. Willem Grosheide* Dr. F. Willem Grosheide is Professor of Private Law and Intellectual Property Law, Molengraaff Institute/Center for Intellectual Property Law University Utrecht () and practising lawyer at Van Doorne Amsterdam.
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1 Access to works online. An effort is made to write this paper as strictly as possible following a questionnaire prepared by Professor Xavier Linant de Bellefonds, General Reporter, Faculté de Droit de Paris XII, France, adding, however, issues that seem of particular interest from a Dutch perspective.
The right to information
General
It may here be taken for grantedthat since the second half of the 20th century the Information Society may now be considered as running parallel to the 19th century Industrial Society. One of the striking effects of this development particularly made possible by the spread of digital technology is modification of information, . today information, together with physical goods is the raw material of socio-economic and cultural life in the industrialised world. As a consequence, if the question of access to property and ownership of physical goods was a major issue in the 19th century, this became equally true for the question of access to property and the ownership of information in the 20th century.. An early account of this development can be found in . Ploman, L. Clark Hamilton, Copyright-intellectual property in the information age (London 1980).
Besides, since the rapid and broad extension of transborder socio-economic and cultural exchange is another characteristic of daily life in the late 20th century industrialised societies, the effects of the modification are at the same time experienced on a worldwide basis.. From the already abundant literature on this subject the following sources may be mentioned: Debora J. Halbert, Intellectual Property in the Information Age – The Politics of Expanding Ownershi