Re: electronic journals CCC

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

I think there is a distinction between fair use in the print environment
and the extension of this to the electronic environment. I agree that few
publishers are keen on electronic to electronic or accept that this can
automatically be assumed from current fair use doctrine but I am very
surprised that many publishers deny fair use in the sense of sending or
faxing print copies. I can state categorically (because I am on the
relevant committees)  that neither the STM Association nor (in the UK) the
Publishers Association are acting (or trying to act) to overturn fair use
in the former sense.

Anthony Watkinson


----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Alexander <alexandera@lindahall.org>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: electronic journals CCC


> Anthony,
>
> Any librarian (and there were a few of us) who attended the
> NFAIS-sponsored seminar on fair use and the Internet last January in
> Washington DC would certainly have come away ( I know I did) with the
> distinct impression that at least most of the larger commercial publishers
> were of this "anti-fair use"  persuasion. AAP itself is on record before
> the US Copyright Office in opposition to revisions to our Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act relative to the first-sale doctrine, without
> which there really isn't any fair use, at least in the electronic
> environment. Other recent public comments from AAP leaders seem to suggest
> that we in the "land of the free and the home of the brave" from the type
> of librarian/publisher cooperation that you describe below.
>
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