[WEB4LIB] RE: AAP and librarians article

[Masters, Gary E]

I guess so.  I work with medical and scientific literature.  It seems to
have a much shorter half life.  In history they still wait for the
information to come out of classification many years later.

Gary


Gary E. Masters
Librarian (Systems)
CDRH - FDA
(301) 827-6893 

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Carol Bean [SMTP:CAROL at tpbp.com]
	Sent:	Wednesday, February 07, 2001 10:44 AM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	[WEB4LIB] RE: AAP and librarians article


	Gary E. Masters wrote:

	"The new law will be different.   I expect
	that they will protect new material for as long as they can and let
the
	older stuff pass into the public domain.  If anyone can predict the
time
	frame for this (weeks or days or months) they may get rich.  But if
we look
	at movies with a process of first run, pay per view, cable, and
video tape
	in the process then home broadcast, we can get an idea of how it
will look."

	Despite the comparisons in the article, written stuff tends to have
a longer
	life than the entertainment field.  Wish I had a memory for authors,
dates
	and places, but there was a study done a few years ago (maybe
multiple ones)
	that showed journal articles don't even begin to be significantly
used for
	several years after publication, and continue to be regularly cited
after 10
	years. I think the trend of the Sonny Bono amendment is more what
we'll be
	facing with text media (of course, made to fit in with the
electronic aspect
	of accessing it).  It would be just too good to be true if the
publishers
	actually let the stuff out into the public domain in 15 years (or
less)!

	Carol Bean
	Law Librarian
	Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, L.L.P.
	Baton Rouge, LA
	225-387-3221 
	carol at tpbp.com

	Usual disclaimers; these are obviously not the opinions of my
employer!


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