>> 2000 Town Meetings >> Triangle COPYRIGHT & DISTANCE EDUCATION Tuesday March 7, 2000 Triangle Research Libraries Network University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Meeting Report Local Town Meeting Site Speakers & Panel Agenda Resource List Copyright & Distance Education Online: A Discussion Building on the successful series of meetings conducted in 1997/98, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), in collaboration with the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), will hold a "town meeting" on copyright and fair use under the theme "Copyright and the Cultural Community." The event will have as its focus distance education and will explore issues of access to intellectual property, ownership, digital distribution of teaching and learning materials, and current and proposed legislation affecting these areas. The meeting is intended to open a dialogue among faculty members, administrators, librarians, publishers, information technologists, and others on matters critical to the future of higher education. James Boyle, professor of law at American University, and Peggy E. Hoon, Scholarly Communication Librarian at North Carolina State University, will facilitate exploration of the issues. Senior Library Administrators from TRLN institutions and the Chair of the TRLN Council of Library Directors will conduct a role-playimg session providing perspectives of various stakeholders in the scholarly communication arena. Speakers/Facilitators James Boyle, Professor of Law, American University (Professor of Law, Duke University from Summer 2000) [ Biographical Sketch ] Peggy Hoon, North Carolina State University's scholarly communication librarian [ Biographical Sketch ] Panel Larry P. Alford, Senior Associate University Librarian, Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill James A. Curtis, Associate Director for Administrative Services, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E. Christian Filstrup, Associate Director for Collection Management, Organization, and Preservation, North Carolina State University Libraries Dr. Deborah L. Jakubs, Director, Collection Services, Perkins Library, Duke University Dr. Benjamin F. Speller, Jr., Professor and Dean, School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University [ Biographical Sketch ] Agenda 1:00-1:15      Welcome and Introductions 1:15-2:00      Peggy Hoon: Review of Current Legislative Developments 2:00-3:30      James Boyle: Interactive Session 3:30-4:15      Role-Playing Panel: Presentation 4:15-4:30      Conclusion 4:30-6:00      Reception Resource List American Association of University Professors Special Committee on Distance Education and Intellectual Property Issues http://www.aaup.org/spcintro.htm Association of American Universities. "Intellectual Property and New Media Technologies: A Framework for Policy Development" http://www.tulane.edu/~aau/IPNewMediaReport.html Chambers, Gail S. "Toward Shared Control of Distance Education," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 19, 1999, pp. B8-9. Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems (CETUS). "Fair Use of Copyrighted Works: A Crucial Element in Educating America" http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems (CETUS). "Ownership of New Works at the University: Unbundling of Rights and the Pursuit of Higher Learning" http://www.cetus.org/ownership.pdf Crews, Kenneth D. "Copyright and Distance Education: Lawful Uses of Protected Works" http://www.ihets.org/distance_ed/ipse/fdhandbook/copyrt.html Crews, Kenneth D. "Summary of U.S. Copyright Office Report on Distance Education Prepared by the Copyright Management Center" http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/distedsum.html Gasaway, Laura N., editor. "Growing Pains: Adapting Copyright for Libraries, Education, and Society". Littleton, Colo. : F.B. Rothman, 1997. NCSU Libraries Scholarly Communication Center http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/ "U.S. Copyright Office Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education, Key Recommendations" http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/report.pdf "NC State University's Written Comments to the U.S. Copyright Office re Distance Education and Digital Technologies" http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/SCwritten.html "DMCA Copyright Protection and Management Systems" http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/circumvention.pdf U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. "Copyright Office Study on Distance Education" http://www.loc.gov/copyright/disted/ U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. "Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works" http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html University of Maryland. "CopyOwn: A Resource on Copyright Ownership for the Higher Education Community" http://www.umd.edu/copyown University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council. "Recommendations of the UNC-CH Copyright Committee" http://www.unc.edu/faculty/faccoun/reports/R98Copyright10-98.html