audio and video recordings, photography and even the
effort you knocked up in the woodwork class all those
years ago.  Probably the strangest thing to be held under
copyright is an object which was familiar in the Sixties
on every British street corner, the good old Police Box
(whose copyright is held by the BBC.)

It has been argues that once multimedia-style technology
is widely available, people will be free to use or abuse
anything they come across, regardless of whether the
material is copyright or not, which can be fed into the
computer and manipulated.

I am sure that this will be true in many cases; but let us
be careful NOT to fall into the trap of classifying all
future multimedia authors as violators of copyright.  But,
with such wide access to diverse forms of media (radio,
television, compact disc, printed material to name a few),
many will no doubt be tempted and not realise that they
are breaking the copyright laws.


Copyright too boring to be on the agenda?

I believe that the problem is that the computer industry
and to a similar extent, its associated media, only