Discusses the White Paper on Intellectual Property in the National Information Infrastructure which recommends amendments to the copyright law and discusses digital information. Highlights include educational and library uses of copyrighted works, reproductions for the visually impaired, transmissions as displays, liability for online services…

Copyright and other intellectual property issues have dominated discussions of legal issues surrounding the Internet. There are other issues of considerable importance that also attract attention. Five legal issues affecting the Internet are addressed: copyright, online service-provider liability, database protection, obscenity, and privacy. Cited…

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.…