Several new articles and events on copyright have come to our attention
recently. We thought ARLIS members might be interested.
James Mitchell and Barbara Rockenbach
Co-Chairs, Public Policy Committee
From Tech Law Journal-
http://www.techlawjournal.com/alert/subscriptions.asp
7/12. The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a mark up of S 487,
the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act, or TEACH Act,
for Wednesday, July 17.
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US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Schedule:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/schedule.htm
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S 487-
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00487:
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NINCH, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, has
announced two more Copyright Town Meetings, to be held this Fall:
* September 7, Museum Computer Network Conference, Toronto.
Creating IP Policy in Museums
* September 30, Georgia Institute for Technology, Atlanta, GA.
New Media Copyright Issues
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Roger Lawson notes the following article, announced recently in the
Digital Copyright Digest:
Library Digitization Projects and Copyright
By Mary Minow, J.D.
Published June 28, 2002
http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm
Covers such topics as the Expiration of Works into the Public Domain;
Section 108 Library Exception; Fair Use; Permissions, Good Faith Efforts
and Disclaimers.
The final report of the symposium "Art, Technology, and Intellectual
Property," held by the American Assembly of Columbia University on
February 7-10, 2002, is now available on the web at
http://www.americanassembly.org/ac/atip_na_main.htm
The very readable report, available there as a pdf file, provides an
excellent overview of recent issues, as well as important suggestions for
further disussion and research, such as the challenges presented by new
media to traditional and evolving business models; the possible usefulness
of more sophisticated and comprehensive copyright information portals; and
the possible applicability of the conservancy model to the IP public
domain.
Also available on the site are streaming video clips of the presentations
by Debora Spar, Professor, School of Business, Harvard University, and by
Lawrence Lessig, Professor, School of Business, Stanford University.
Other participants included Jeffrey Cunard, partner at the firm Debevoise
& Plimpton who has assisted CAA; David Green, Executive Director of NINCH;
Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law, American University; and Jonathan
Tasini, President of the National Writers Union.
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