Practical guide to copyright for multimedia producers

Technological advances in digital information processing have brought a new configuration to communications, culture and telecommunications, bringing all these sectors closer together at the beginning of a social, cultural and economic transformation. This transformation has been heralded by the emergence and development of digital information processing. The new communication services that digitization brings are generally referred to under the generic term "multimedia". This guide examines the implications for copyright of technological progress which will soon allow multimedia to be distributed by interactive television and telecommunications.