With
the advent of computer publishing and hypertext come many new problems that
need to be addressed in Copyright Law. Major issues that need to be addressed
when one is writing in an internetworked hypertextual environment are those
of ownership, authorial control, responsibility,
reader access, and transience of information. When a reader is able to directly
influence another individual's text, the question of ownership of the text becomes
vague. It is difficult to designate one particular individual as owner in this
instance, and therefore no one individual can be held responsible
for the text. Another issue is the ability to link texts together transparently
over the Internet, so that a reader is not aware when they have left one document
and entered another. The question then becomes who owns the text, and who controls
the distribution and other rights to it.