Publishers Balk at Fair Use Copyright
An effort to draft nationally recognized guidelines on "fair
use" of copyrighted works in digital format stalled last week
when an Association of American Publishers VP objected to
language that would have allowed an educational institution to
make limited use of copyrighted material over its computer
network without seeking the owner's permission. Voicing fears
that any electronic dissemination could lead to unauthorized
copying, she called for the use of copyrighted digital works only
in a real-time setting in the classroom: "Current technology is
not able to prevent a recipient from further distributing copies
or altering the content." (Chronicle of Higher Education 15 Dec
95 A23 x Edupage)