Re: electronic journals CCC

[Adrian Alexander <alexandera@lindahall.org>]

While we, on the other side, believe that fair use should be viewed as a
"format neutral" tenet of copyright that is a fundamental public policy
issue.

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Adrian W. Alexander, Executive Director
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At 06:24 PM 5/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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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