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Subject: ARL Announces..Educational Community Exploration of Fair Use
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June 12, 1997
ARL Announces....
Educational Community Effort to Explore Fair Use in the Digital
Environment
The Association of Research Libraries has joined with a number of
national organizations representing educators, scholars, librarians, and
institutions that support learning and research, to undertake a renewed
effort to explore the appropriate parameters of fair use of copyrighted
materials in the digital environment. The pledge comes in the aftermath
of the May 19, 1997, meeting of the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), at
which no agreement was reached on proposals for fair use guidelines.
The goal of the educational community in this new effort is to encourage
the development, use, and sharing of fair use policies and practices
that provide for the special needs and concerns of education and
scholarship, while also providing as much clarity as possible about the
boundaries of fair use as experience and good faith permit.
Members of the educational, scholarly, and copyright user communities
(listed below) have individually and collectively committed themselves
to the following:
% We will share experiences concerning: the application of new
technology in library and educational environments, "fair uses" made of
copyrighted works, proprietors' responses to requests for permission to
use copyrighted materials, and sources of helpful information regarding
fair use and other privileges under copyright law;
% We will participate in organized efforts to capture and disseminate
such information;
% We will assist in the development of "User Community Principles" and
educator- and librarian-generated "Best Practices" concerning fair use,
distance learning, and other activities supported by current copyright
law;
% We will work to extend the application of fair use into digital
networked environments in libraries and educational institutions by
relying on it responsibly to lawfully make creative use of information;
% We will resist relying on any proposed code of conduct which may
substantially or artificially constrain the full and appropriate
application of fair use; and
% We will encourage our members to reject any licensing agreement clause
that implicitly or explicitly limits or abrogates fair use or any other
legally conveyed user privilege.
The organizations endorsing this statement (as of June 9, 1997) are:
American Association of Law Libraries
American Association of State Colleges and Universities
American Council on Education
American Council of Learned Societies
American Library Association
Association of American Universities
Association of Research Libraries
Medical Library Association
National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges
National Education Association
National Humanities Alliance
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
National School Boards Association
Special Libraries Association
The full statement issued by the organizations is available at
<http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/confustate.html> or
<http://www.ala.org/washoff/confu.html>.
See ARL's Copyright and Intellectual Property page at
<http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html> for information about
fair use and other intellectual property topics of interest to the
research library community.
Also, the June issue of ARL's newsletter, ARL 192, will be a special
issue devoted to copyright and intellectual property. The online
version will be accessible at <http://arl.cni.org/newsltr/newsltr.html>.
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