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CONFU feedback

Joan Reyes (jxr@psulias.psu.edu)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:30:23 -0500 

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:30:23 -0500
From: jxr@psulias.psu.edu (Joan Reyes)
Subject: CONFU feedback
To: arl-ereserve@cni.org
Message-Id: <01IGYMO32CM690MZ4E@psulias.psu.edu>

        There is still time to send your comments regarding CONFU and
especially the fair use guidelines and electronic reserves.

        Please see the following message.

Later,
Joan A. Reyes
Chair, ACRL Electronic Reserves Discussion Group
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>Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:02:37 -0500 (EST)
>From: Jeff Rosedale <rosedale@columbia.edu>
>Subject: CONFU feedback
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>I am considering writing something to express my dismay at a lack of
>any direction from CONFU on fair use and electronic reserves.  It
>occurs to me that if the government and/or publishers know how many of
>us there are, they might be more disposed towards serving our needs
>(though it's probably up to *us* to define, fight for and preserve fair
>use rights).
>
>     Take or leave as you see fit...
>
>                        --Jeff
>                rosedale@columbia.edu
>
>/* Written  2:08 pm  Feb 21, 1997 by magier@columbia.edu in jambo:cul */
>/* ---------- "NCC Washington Update, Feb 20, 1997" ---------- */
>
>NCC Washington Update, vol. 3, # 7,  February 20, 1997
>   by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating
>      Committee for the Promotion of History <pagem@capaccess.org>
>
>1.  NHPRC Commissioners Vote Unanimously
>          To Reconsider Strategic Plan
>2.  The Conference on Fair Use Releases Its Interim Report
>          And Requests Endorsements and/or Comments
>
>1.  NHPRC Commissioners Vote Unanimously to Reconsider Strategic Plan --
>At its February 20 meeting, the National Historical Publications and
>Records Commission (NHRPC) voted unanimously to reconsider the strategic
>plan that it had adopted at its November meeting. The November plan,
>adopted, by a divided vote, was originally to go into affect in 1999 and
>was to serve as the framework for guiding the Commission in its allocation
>of grants.  The November plan has only four categories of grant making,
>two in the top priority and two in the second priority.  The two
>categories in the top priority level are grants for states and grants for
>research and development projects, particularly those dealing with
>preservation of and access to electronic records. The second priority
>categories are for documentary editions (all existing and future projects)
>and grants for preserving and making available document collections.
>
>In January the American Historical Association and the Organization of
>American Historians passed resolutions requesting reconsideration of the
>plan.  Additionally there was some critical press coverage of the plan and
>numerous letters from diverse constituents to the Executive Director of
>NHPRC questioning aspects of the plan.  The various expressions of concern
>stressed that the November strategic plan placed no historical documentary
>editions projects or nationally significant records projects in its first
>level of funding priorities, despite the fact that these had been central
>to the mandate of NHPRC.
>
>Lewis Bellardo, presiding as the designated replacement for Archivist John
>Carlin, called early in the meeting for a report from the Executive
>Committee, composed of 5 commission members.  William Slany on behalf of
>the Executive Committee, which had met the previous day, presented a
>resolution calling for the reconsideration of the November strategic plan.
>A very congenial discussion preceded the vote in which the Commission
>agreed to review at its June 19 meeting the November strategic plan and to
>delay the implementation of the November plan in the meantime.
>
>The Commission also put in place a process for providing an opportunity
>for constituent groups and interested people to comment on the plan.  The
>resolution instructed the NHPRC staff to prepare a packet for distribution
>to interested organizations that will include background material and a
>series of questions that address the present and future status of NHPRC's
>mandate and role. The resolution calls for responses to the questions by
>May 1 and authorizes the Executive Committee to meet in May to review the
>responses and forward them to the Commission with such further
>recommendations as may be desirable for reviewing the plan.
>
>2.  The Conference on Fair Use Releases Its Interim Report And Requests
>Endorsements and/or Comments -- The Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) has
>released an Interim Report, which contains the draft proposals for fair
>use guidelines in the areas of digital images, distance learning, and
>educational multimedia.  Organizations in both the copyright owner and
>user communities are encouraged to study this report and provide CONFU
>with letters or statements, commenting on or endorsing the various
>guidelines.  When CONFU meets on May 19 for its final meeting, it will
>consider adopting the proposed guidelines and will be taking into
>consideration the responses to the Interim Report.  CONFU must receive
>communications no later than May 9 to be considered at the May 19 meeting.
>Send letters to the CONFU facilitator:  Peter N. Fowler, Attorney-
>Advisor, Office of Legislative and International Affairs, U.S. Patent and
>Trademark Office, Box 4, Washington, DC 20231, FAX (703) 305-8885 or
>e-mail:  confu@uspto.gov
>
>To receive a free single copy of the report, send or fax a written request
>to:  CONFU Interim Report, c/o Richard Maulsby, Director, Office of Public
>Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, DC 20231 FAX:
>(703) 308-5258.  The Interim Report is also available on the US Patent
>and Trademark Office website at <http://www.uspto.gov>
>/* End of text from jambo:cul */
>
>
Joan Arlene Reyes
Access Services Librarian
The Pennsylvania State University Libraries
E506 Pattee Library
University Park, PA 16802
Tel:  (814) 865-1858
Fax:  (814) 863-7293
E-mail:  JXR@psulias.psu.edu
"I'd leave a guy for a film, but I'd never leave a film for a
guy."--Nathalie Baye (Day for Night, 1973)

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