Sept. Public Domain Symposium at NAS

["Paul Uhlir" <PUhlir@nas.edu>]

Below is an announcement for the "Symposium on the Role of S&T Data and
Information in the Public Domain," suitable for e-mailing or posting on
your Web site. I would very much appreciate it if you would redisseminate
the announcement as broadly as possible at this time. Additional
information, including a registration form, can be found through the URL.
The preliminary agenda is posted there as well. Please let me know if you
have any questions or suggestions.

Thanks,

Paul
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The SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA AND INFORMATION
IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN will be held 5-6 September 2002, at the [U.S.]
National Academy of Sciences Auditorium, 2100 C Street NW, in Washington,
DC.

The Symposium will bring together leading experts and managers from the
public and private sectors who are involved in the creation,
dissemination, and use of STI to discuss: the role, value, and limits of
public-domain STI in the research and education context; the various
legal, economic, and technological pressures on producers of public domain
STI, and their potential effects on research and education; the existing
and proposed approaches for preserving the public domain or providing
"open access" to STI in the United States; and other important issues in
this area that may benefit from further analysis.The meeting will be free
and open to the public, but advance registration is required. For
additional information and registration, please visit the Symposium web
site at:

http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Public%20Domain%20Symposium%20Announcement.html
  or contact the project director, Paul Uhlir, tel. (202) 334 2807;
e-mail: puhlir@nas.edu.