ABSTRACT
Understanding reproduction rights has never been easy. For hundreds of years, publishers, archivists, teachers, and others seeking access to creative material have struggled to interpret laws governing the use of photography, art, literature, and musical compositions by people other than the original artists. As use of the personal computer spread throughout the 1980s, things got even more complicated. For the first time, art could be digitized-turned into tiny bits of information for storage on computer disk and distribution to mass audiences.
