"For copyright, the implications are fundamental. Established notions about copyright become obsolete, rooted as they are in the technology of print. . . . With the arrival of electronic reproduction, these practices become unworkable. Electronic publishing is analogous not so much to the print shop of the eighteenth century as to word-of-mouth communication, to which copyright was never applied."

- Eric Schlachter
Intellectual Property Protection Regimes in the Age of the Internet