NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/bit/listserv/vpiejl/80

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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:36:56 U
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Subject:      Copyright concerns
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REGARDING                Copyright concerns
Recently, we in our library have been having discussions regarding
copyright/other concerns for electronic journals which charge subscriptions (I
suppose some of it would apply to "free" e-journals, too.

Anyway, the substance of the discussion revolves around what a publisher would
consider a good-faith effort to prevent a library user from accessing a journal
on a library "subscription", and downloading the data and "redistributing" it
among their colleagues, lab group, or international community peers.

Things that have been discussed are forcing each user of electronic journals
from a library subscription to stare at a copyright screen in which they "sign
their life away" by acknowledging by hitting return, or some such thing.  (An
assumed here is that there would be a blockade in place to prevent
non-institution people from signing on/in).

I suppose if the publishers really want to prevent this type of thing, it is up
to them to encode their data, but that really seems to limit the usefulness of
e-journals.

So, now on to the group.  What are the opinions of the publishers out there?
Other information user groups?

--Kimberly Parker
   Yale Science Libraries