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Bauke Fahner
XinYu Jiang
Bas Sluijsmans
Sanna Tauriainen
Raymond de Vos
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* [[Unified standard for e-books]] | * [[Unified standard for e-books]] | ||
* [[New displays will be available to the public]] | * [[New displays will be available to the public]] | ||
* [[Books (paper) are | * [[Books (paper) are preferred over digital media]] | ||
* [[Copyrights of | * [[Copyrights of digitized books become untrackable]] | ||
== Diagrams == | == Diagrams == | ||
Revision as of 19:01, 5 March 2007
Introduction
Introductionary story on the topic discussed
Team Composition
Research Questions
In our research we have identified 5 different categories, namely:
- History (Xin Yu)
- Economic Perspective/Value (Raymond)
- General Information (Raymond/Sanna)
- Prospective usage of books (Bas)
- Law, Legislation and Stakeholders (Bauke)
See the research questions section for the actual questions and answers.
Driving Forces
Based on the PEST theory
Political
- Authors rights and personality rights changes
- Members of WIPO leave
- Importance of learning increases over protection
- Overprotection of local laws and authors
Economic
- Economical and Environmental Issues
- Authors of books will be creating books under "open source like" licences
Social
Technological
- Development of e-book readers
- New features compared to printed books
- New development in (free)energy http://www.steorn.org
- Unified standard for e-books
- New displays will be available to the public
- Books (paper) are preferred over digital media
- Copyrights of digitized books become untrackable