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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the NINCH listserv. Please forgive any duplication. >>> NINCH-ANNOUNCE <[log in to unmask]> 11/10/99 02:25pm >>> NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 10, 1999 THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & THE NET NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT AVAILABLE ONLINE NOV. 18 at <http://www.cstb.org/> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:42:21 -0800 From: Clifford Lynch <[log in to unmask]> Subject: NRC report The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property and the Net The National Research Council committee on Intellectual Property in the Emerging Information Infrastructure (on which I served) held a well-attended public briefing this week and released prepublication copies of their report, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property and the Emerging Information Infrastructure. The printed book will come out from the National Academy Press around the end of the year. You can find materials from the briefing and a summary of the report at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board web site, <http://www.cstb.org/>, or at <http://www.nas.edu/>. I am told that the full text of the report will be online within a week or so. I'd urge you to have a look at these materials; I think that there's a great deal of valuable and useful material in the report. Clifford Lynch Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information ==========================================================Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 From: Page Miller <[log in to unmask]> Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 5 #39, November 10, 1999 (fwd) NCC Washington Update, Vol 5, #39, November 10, 1999 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History <[log in to unmask]> 3. National Research Council's Report on Copyright Offers New Perspectives - The National Research Council released on November 3 a report titled "Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age." Professor Randall Davis of MIT, who heads the Council's committee on property rights in the digital age, presented the report, which had taken two years to prepare. He summed up the dilemma by talking about "how digital information can be distributed without losing control of it -- sharing it but not surrendering it." The report addresses the concerns of authors, publishers, the general public, the education community, representatives of the technology industry, and policy makers. Davis noted that "digital information raises the stakes around the long-standing issue of copying for private use and fair use." And he addressed the trend toward licensing and asks "With an online journal, what do you own when the subscription expires?" The report, which urges that we look beyond the technology at hand and deal with under lying issues, asks us to recognize "the difference between accessing digital information and using it, that is, the difference between reading a work and quoting or copying it." In discussing the report, Davis also highlighted the report's question "of whether the notion of a 'copy' remains an appropriate foundation for copyright law in the digital age." Copying, he notes, is directly related to the way computers function for that is how data is accessed; and thus, control of copying would provide powers, that he suggests, go beyond those intended by copyright law. In suggesting the need to develop an alternative framework for understanding copyright, Davis says that the question would not be whether a copy had been made, but whether a use of a work was consistent with the goal of copyright law and whether it was substantially destructive of an author's incentive to publish. The lead item on the National Academies Web Page at <http://www.nationalacademies.org> is "Legislators Should Go Slow on Electronic Copyright Laws" and links are provided to the full text of Davis' remarks, the press release on the report, and a report summary. ========================================================== NINCH-Anounce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ========================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ==========================================================