Examines policies related to ownership or license of student-created intellectual property in Canadian universities and concludes that universities cannot claim ownership without significant legal issues. Presents recommendations to resolve difficulties. Contains 69 notes and 6 references. (JOW)

Offers observations about the borrowing of written texts within a corporation called Cerebellum Inc. Attempts by doing so to initiate a dialog about the culturally constructed concept of plagiarism and the practice of borrowing from other people's work. (TB)

Discusses the World Intellectual Property Organization's proposed Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Databases and suggests that because it disagrees with United States copyright law and the First Amendment, it should be rejected. Topics include public interests and individual property rights; journalists' reporting; and the fair use…

Since its founding in 1990, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has focused on publishing and accessing intellectual property. This article presents an interview with CNI's new executive director, Cliff Lynch discussing future changes, scholarly communication and the Internet, the University of California Berkeley's MELVYL, computer…

Argues that "indigenous" people transferring cultural information to other, more "developed" people should have legal protection from unfair transactions. Presents ethical and legal bases for such protection. Examples involve the knowledge of rain-forest tribes that has been used to produce valuable pharmaceutical products from…

Effective June 8, 1995, new patent laws resulting from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) will become effective. Some would protect researcher rights to intellectual property. Others may make it harder for institutions to commercialize on faculty and graduate student research due to shortened patent terms. (MSE)

Discussion of issues concerning the protection of artists' and authors' rights focuses on moral rights. Highlights include copyright; intellectual property protection; new technologies, especially multimedia; the example of digital photography; examples of previous cases; and the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990. (Contains 24 references.) (LRW)

Discusses issues of copyright and the transfer or use of intellectual property as they relate to librarians. Topics addressed include the purpose of copyright laws, financial losses to publishers from pirating, cultural views of pirating, the fair use doctrine, concerns of authors of scholarly materials, impact of increasing library automation and…

Compares the development of copyright in the United Kingdom and the United States in relation to writing, literary works and other forms of intellectual property, and computer programs to show how writing is a unifying principle for documents and computers. (68 references) (EAM)

Examines laws governing intellectual property that affect distance education. Topics addressed include copyright law, particularly the concept of fair use; traditional applications of copyright law in education, including photocopying and the Classroom Guidelines; and distance learning and copyright law, including works transmitted via…

Some scholars warn that a federal court ruling on copyright infringement may increase costs and delay production of anthologies of readings for college students. Others say the ruling provides needed safeguards against the pirating of intellectual property. Increased care in obtaining reproduction permission is anticipated. (MSE)

In the rush to profit from patented discoveries, university officials and professors are becoming more protective of research results. Although scholars are outraged at refusals to share discoveries, some critics in industry and academe say the outcry results from greed. A standard contract is being designed to facilitate information exchange.…

Discusses problems that new information technologies have created for intellectual property concerns. Digital sampling devices used in music are described, downloading from large databases is discussed, the problems with derivative works are considered, outdated copyright laws are discussed, and ways that librarians can help protect intellectual…

Presents the factors used to determine whether a particular use of a copyrighted work is fair use; considers the re-evaluation of fair use forced by the NII (National Information Infrastructure); and discusses universal service (i.e., access to telecommunications service for everyone) and the universal service fund. (MES)

Examination of several hundred contracts for university-industry research collaboration in five British universities reveals several types of clauses that could cause problems in legal interpretation. Problem areas include ownership of intellectual property, reward allocation, and monitoring of results. (SK)