Intellectual property and the National Information Infrastructure : the report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights / Bruce A. Lehman, chair.

  • United States. Information Infrastructure Task Force. Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights
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[1995]
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Credit: Intellectual property and the National Information Infrastructure : the report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights / Bruce A. Lehman, chair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Conference and have been meeting regularly since September 1994 in sessions that are open to the public. The Working Group also kicked off a Copyright Awareness Campaign (CAC) in March 1995. Approximately 40 participating individuals and organizations are coordinating their educational efforts and joining with the Working Group and the Department of Education to raise public awareness of copyright. Meetings of the Campaign are also open to the public. Interested parties had numerous opportunities to submit their views on the intellectual property implications of the development and use of the NII and on the Working Group's Green Paper, including its preliminary findings and recommendations. The open process instituted by the Working Group resulted in a well-developed, voluminous record indicating the views of a wide variety of interested parties, including various electronic industries, service providers, the academic, research, library and legal communities, and individual creators, copyright owners and users, as well as the computer software, motion picture, music, broadcasting, publishing and other information and entertainment industries. The special intellectual property concerns and issues raised by the development and use of the NII are the subject of this Report.” It does not, however, provide all of the answers. It may not even present all of the questions. There is much that we do not -- and cannot -- now know about how the NII will develop. Technology is advancing at such an incredible pace that issues will certainly continue to arise in the future, perhaps demanding more comprehensive legislation. However, because there is much 4 This Report does not attempt to address all existing intellectual property issues. For instance, current debates over protection of the design of useful articles and whether or to what extent certain aspects of computer programs are or should be protected under copyright law are not covered by this Report. Likewise, certain patent issues, such as pre-grant publication and reexamination, are not addressed.
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