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After due consideration and recommendation by the Public Policy Committee,
the ARLIS/NA Executive Board is pleased to endorse the NHA, National
Humanities Alliance, Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property
in the Digital Environment, March 24, 1997.
Certainly ARLIS/NA is keenly invested in and recognizes the potential
benefits to accrue from the development of guidelines. However, for such
guidelines to be wholeheartedly embraced they must serve the needs of the
society constituency as a whole. It was felt that this could not be said
of
the CONFU "Proposal for the Educational Fair Use of Digital Images,"
which
ARLIS/NA rejected in April 1997.
However, ARLIS/NA believes that the NHA's Basic Principles
provide a reasonable foundation upon which to base current and future
practices and directions on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital
environment. Further, we believe that the Basic Principles are in
keeping with and serve to promote the mission and goals of ARLIS/NA.
We applaud and support the worthy efforts of the NHA in taking the initiative
to develop these basic principles upon which to build and in seeking to foster
consensus among disparate parties in this highly divisive climate.
And we trust that this endeavor will provide a forum for productive discussion
and debate about these issues in the aftermath of the CONFU process.
Katherine Poole & Hinda Sklar
Co-Chairs, Public Policy Committee
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Katherine Poole
Rotch Library Visual Collections, M.I.T.
77 Mass. Ave., 7-304
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
1-617-253-7098
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