The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age

[Sloan, Bernie]

The National Research Council of the National Academies has issued a report
on "Intellectual Property in the Information Age". An excerpt from the press
release reads:

"Legislators should delay any overhauling of intellectual property laws and
public policy until markets have had ample time to adjust to new models of
doing business and until sufficient research on the issues is conducted, the
report says. To help legislators effectively formulate or revise laws and
policies in the future, the committee articulated a set of broad, guiding
principles that offer advice about creating laws in a period of rapid
technological change."

The following URLs provide some background information:

1. Statement by Randall Davis, MIT Computer Science Department, and chair of
the National Research Council's Committee on Intellectual Property Rights
and the Emerging Information Infrastructure:

http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/(ByDocID)/493BFF8CF5944CE18525681
E0062FCB6?OpenDocument

2. Press release describing the committee's report:

http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309064996?OpenDocument

3. Excerpts from the report. Of the most interest is the Executive Summary,
and Chapter 6, which outlines the committee's conclusions and
recommendations:

http://books.nap.edu/books/0309064996/html/index.html


Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
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E-mail:  bernies at uillinois.edu