Discusses issues that products of information technology raise for intellectual property. Describes three kinds of support that the university may contribute to the creation of an intellectual product: financial, intellectual, and reputational. Discusses the standards of accuracy, appropriateness, and fairness that the university must uphold. (AEF)

Legal questions involving conveyance of university-developed technology to the marketplace are becoming an increasing problem. This article discusses issues of intellectual property, including: university policies of ownership; faculty copyrights; university partnerships with the federal government; hidden costs of aggressive protection; and…

Discusses the evolution of authorship and copyright from the Middle Ages to the present. Highlights include the rise in literacy and increased demand; censorship and state-granted licenses; legislation; intellectual property and the means of production and dissemination as the basis for the publishing business; information access and copyright…

Bruce A. Lehman, chair of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, discusses three issues related to the Copyright Act that will affect Internet transmissions: whether transmissions are performances or deliveries of copies; the scope of fair use; and whether there should be a copyright system in the electronic age. (JKP)

Discusses these four issues identified by EDUCAUSE's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) as being key to its mission to create new collegiate learning environments that harness the power of information technology: (1) intellectual property rights; (2) institutional readiness to enhance academic productivity; (3) faculty support and…

Discusses the role of copyright law in managing intellectual property rights in a digital age. Topics include the application of fair use to digital materials; the impact of information technology in defining intellectual property rights; and the need for change in the notion of fair use. (KRN)

Presents the second part of an interview with Vinton Cerf on issues of information technology. Discusses reading with laptop computers; the "extinction" of books; technological experiments by publishers; copyrights, intellectual property, and ownership; cable companies; the impact of the Internet on education; and the future of the…

Discusses the protection of intellectual property as it applies to computer software and its impact on private enterprise and the public good. Highlights include the role of patents, copyrights, and trade secrets; some court cases; and recommendations for alternatives to the existing legal framework for protecting computer software. (KRN)

Discusses the following challenges institutions must consider as they enter the new marketplace of distributed learning: library access, faculty workload, faculty incentives, faculty-support structures, intellectual property, articulation agreements, financial aid, pricing, cross-subsidization of programs, institutional loyalty and philanthropy,…