The argument of this paper has been that the UCC 2B debate, like all
discussions of "the computer revolution," has become trapped in its own
metaphors metaphors about "information highways" and the "knowledge
economy." The first stage of every process of historical change must
necessarily use metaphors from the past, but they are at best
heuristic.
-- Peter Lyman "The UCC 2-B Debate and the Sociology of the
Information Age" Berkeley Technology Law Journal
13:3 (Fall 1998)
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~plyman/articles/BJLTfinal.pdf
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/13_3/Lyman/html/reader.html
If the copyright industry has turned to the information highway
metaphor to analyze the network, the academic community has turned to
the digital library metaphor, using the history of the book to gain
perspective on the current situation.
-- Peter Lyman "The UCC 2-B Debate and the Sociology of the
Information Age" Berkeley Technology Law Journal
13:3 (Fall 1998)
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~plyman/articles/BJLTfinal.pdf
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/13_3/Lyman/html/reader.html