Resumen
The combination of technologies making up the information infrastructure-information in digital form, computer networks and the Web is accompanied by contradictory powers and promises. For intellectual property in particular, it promises more-quantity quality, access and markets-while simultaneously imperiling rewards of those who create and publish it. It is at once a remarkably powerful medium for publishing and distributing information and the world's largest reproduction facility, running unchecked in practice, if not in statute. It is a set of technologies that can improve access to information enormously, yet can inhibit access in ways never before practical. This set of technologies has arrived in a world in which existing laws, policies and practices governing intellectual property depend on subtle, surprisingly complex and at times conflicting elements of law, public policy, economics and technology. These elements are in relative balance today but may well be thrown out of balance by the transformations resulting from the information infrastructure.