Stanford Digital Library Project

SIDL-WP-1995-0002

Some Top-Down Ideas About Payment and Copyright

Steve Cousins

cousins@cs.stanford.edu

Abstract: In this paper, I concentrate on the economics of document retrieval, assuming that the library patron already has a citation in hand. Of course, there will be other for-profit services such as searching in the library. The high-level view of a payment agent presented here should not rule out any payment options.

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This paper was created on: 12/20/94 and last revised on:8/17/1995

Author's Comments: This paper contained some early thoughts about the economics in the digital library. Our current thinking on these things is reflected in the InterPay paper that was published in DL'95.

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