Colleges explore legal Net music setups

["M. Claire Stewart" <claire-stewart@northwestern.edu>]

[Crossposted to digital-copyright and CNI-COPYRIGHT, apologies for 
duplication]

Colleges explore legal Net music setups
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5059030.html>
by John Borland, CNET News.com
August 1, 2003

I find this rather disturbing, mostly due to the makeup of the task 
force (follow the link to the EDUCAUSE page) and the contents of the 
RFI's.

Thoughts?  I guess campuses technically already do this when they 
arrange for campus cable service, or license access to database and 
ejournal content (though the task force is conspicuously short on 
librarians, who have the most experience negotiating content 
licenses) but it seems to me a Very Bad Idea to get into this content 
licensing and use enforcement business voluntarily.

Claire
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