This means that authors should have the right to exclusive use of their creative works for limited times, as is expressed in current copyright law. But it also means that their readers have the right to copy and reuse the work at will once copyright expires. In the US now, there are various efforts to take rights away from readers, by restricting fair use, lengthening copyright terms (even with some proposals to make them perpetual) and extending intellectual property to cover facts separate from creative works (such as found in the "database copyright" proposals). There are even proposals to effectively replace copyright law altogether with potentially much more onerous contract law. I find it much harder to sympathize with MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) head Jack Valenti's plea to stop copying of copyrighted movies when I know that if he had his way, *no* movie would ever enter the public domain. (Mary Bono mentioned this wish of his in Congress last year.) If media companies are seen to try to lock up everything that they can get away with, I don't find it surprising that some consumers react by putting on-line anything *they* can get away with. Unfortunately, doing that in turn takes away the legitimate rights of authors. How to practically solve this? Stakeholders in this debate have to face reality, and recognize that both producers and consumers of works have legitimate interests in their use. If intellectual property is then negotiated by a balance of principles, rather than as the power play it's too often ends up being ("big money vs. rogue pirates") we may be able to come up with some reasonable accommodations. [FR] John Mark Ockerbloom (Pennsylvanie) #Fondateur de The On-Line Books Page, répertoire de livres en ligne disponibles gratuitement The On-Line Books Page répertorie plus de 12.000 textes électroniques d'oeuvres anglophones. John Mark Ockerbloom a débuté ce répertoire en 1993 - en même temps qu'il créait le site web du département d'informatique de l'Université Carnegie Mellon (CMU, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanie). Il a obtenu son doctorat en informatique dans la même université en 1998. Durant l'été 1999, il rejoint l'Université de Pennsylvanie, où il travaille à la R&D (recherche et développement) de la bibliothèque numérique, au sein du département des bibliothèques et de l'informatique. A la même date, The On-Line Books Page est transférée dans cette bibliothèque numérique. [Entretien 02/09/1998 // Entretien 05/08/1999] *Entretien du 2 septembre 1998 (entretien original en anglais) = Quel est l'historique de votre site web?