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Tort Liability, the First Amendment, Equal Access, and Commercialization of Electronic Networks.

Perritt, Henry H., Jr. – Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, 1992

Discusses the legal concerns of free access to information, tort liability, and free speech in a commercial electronic networking environment. Recommends that legal questions be addressed through case law, Congressional hearings, and agency solicitations, and that network service providers protect themselves by posting notice of equal access…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Business, Computer Networks, Copyrights

Forum: Censorship and Electronic Communication in the K-12 Environment. Right-of-Way on the Information Superhighway: Access and Policy Issues for Schools [and] Censorship and Electronic Environments in Schools [and] The Internet May be the Safest Haven [and] A Delicate Balance: Keeping Children out of the Gutters along the Information Highway.

Mazur, Joan M.; And Others – TECHNOS, 1995

Four essays discuss Internet use in schools and focuses on censorship of online information. Highlights include legal cases that may set a precedent for future litigation involving liability and electronic access; descriptions of two schools' experiences with online access; and advice from librarians, including a draft interpretation of the…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education

The Unlimited Potential of the Electronic Library (Except Where Prohibited by the Copyright Law).

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Schmidt, Steven; Lewis, David – 1996

This paper describes the creation of a new library facility for Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, one designed ready to accommodate an infrastructure that would support the new technologies of the electronic information environment. Wiring and fiber-optic schemes are outlined briefly. The document is formatted as a script for…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Networks, Copyrights

Protecting Intellectual Property.

Gasaway, Laura N.; Rush, James E. – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1993

Two articles consider different aspects of the issue of protecting intellectual property rights. The first discusses the effects of a recent court ruling on information centers in the for-profit sector, focusing on fair use under the Copyright Act of 1976; and the second examines moral and economic issues in electronic information dissemination.…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Court Litigation, Economic Factors