No one decries the ability to disseminate work freely, cheaply and easily; it's the lifeblood of the medium, but the plenitude of imagery already disseminated is staggering.
Relative material deprivation in a region could limit the capability of local businesses to invest in safer equipment and to set up the infrastructure to effectively disseminate work safety information.
To understand these, it is necessary to take a closer look at copyright law itself.Ever since its foundations were laid in Britain and America in the 18th century, copyright law has tried to strike a balance between offering an incentive to writers and publishers to create and disseminate works, and guaranteeing public access to the flow of ideas.
Though some might believe that the industry's mission is to produce and disseminate works of literary and/or historical merit, the truth is of course that its real purpose, like that of any industry, is to make money.
In the scientific community, for instance, researchers may work on different aspects of the same problem, but by disseminating their work, they mutually enhance their impact.
By providing a fine-grained access control system, and an easy mechanism to make data public at a later date, SEEK therefore supports collaborative work in consortia or distributed projects as well as acting as a repository for disseminating published work.
To which I say, nobody's stopping you from disseminating your work for free.
Perhaps this flurry of new initiatives aimed at disseminating the work of French Canadian writers — from the fiercely Québécois Raymond Bock to the globally minded Jacques Poulin — will finally bring the isolation of those writers to an end.
After all, Hocking cut her teeth and honed her skills disseminating her work via the modern-day equivalent of the campfire, as the direct descendant of the word-of-mouth wondertales that were formerly transmitted via trading routes and traveling bards.
While best remembered by mathematicians for his search for a formula to generate prime numbers based on what are now known as "Mersenne numbers," his wider significance stems from his role as correspondent, publicizing and disseminating the work of some of the greatest thinkers of his age.
"One of the things that I believe is, if in fact we come up with a model that is more effective at disseminating scholarly work," Mr. Wolfe said last week in an interview, "the other presses are going to have to look at this model and say, 'Can we do what the University of Missouri is doing?' " Before becoming president in February, Mr. Wolfe spent his entire professional career in business.
