This article explores some of the legal and law-related challenges educators face in designing, implementing, and sustaining globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) in the context of conflicting international laws on intellectual property and censorship/free speech. By discussing cases and areas involving such legal issues, the article…

This publication seeks to help community leaders launch KickStart Initiatives to bring their communities onto the information superhighway. Part 1 outlines potential benefits of connectivity to individuals, to educational institutions, to businesses, and to communities. Factors influencing success in the connectivity endeavor include visionary…

The school principal has an affirmative duty to be informed and to fully inform those under his or her supervision regarding the use of copyright. The present Copyright Law of 1978 and its key guidelines are reviewed in this paper, with a focus on the copyright law as it applies to computer software programs, videotaping, and photocopy.…

This paper presents copyright concerns which affect resources and services in higher education. Topics include: (1) a brief overview of the history of copyright; (2) a discussion of copyright components, including fair use guidelines; (3) copyright in libraries, specifically as it relates to reserves and interlibrary loan; (4) copyright in digital…

Although digital distribution via the Internet offers enormous potential for profits for artists, writers, and developers, pirates can also distribute perfect copies. Examines methods of protecting intellectual property: "superdistribution," watermarking, securing sound, managing multimedia, digital envelopes or secure containers,…

Discusses the use of literary electronic texts in middle school classrooms. Topics include where to find electronic texts on the Internet through the World Wide Web, file transfer protocol, or gopher; the effects of copyright law on availability of electronic texts; and downloading texts. (LRW)

If the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1995 becomes law, the public will lose important rights to use electronic works in scholarship, teaching, and research. Libraries will find it difficult to make electronic works available to their users if copyright holders begin to implement licensing systems requiring a "pay-for-view…

Discusses three issues: (1) copyright and the effects of technological change and the trend to commodify information; (2) the interests involved; and (3) the "Green Paper," a proposal by the European Commission to address copyright issues arising from digitization of protected works. Safeguarding free information access can be achieved…

Discusses the librarian's role in bringing about an equilibrium between private and public information interests that serves both information owners and the public, and comments on copyright law, libraries as managers of copyrighted property, access versus ownership, the library advantage in document delivery, the value of copyright, and creating…

Focuses on legal problems related to copyright that might arise from teaching via the Internet. Discusses the basics of copyright law; owner's rights; subject matter of copyright; copyright requirements; infringement action and remedies; the fair-use doctrine; guidelines for classroom copying; two views about controls on the Internet; the White…

Discusses the U.S. Copyright Office's May 25, 1999 Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education. Presents the Register of Copyrights' recommendations to Congress as to how to "promote distance education through networks, while maintaining an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the needs of users of copyrighted…

Examines scholarly problems related to Native-American texts written collaboratively by Native and White authors, in light of colonialist assumptions and a legal tradition that does not recognize collective ownership of cultural property. Discusses questions of authorship, determination of heirs, ethical conflicts over control of the scholarship…

A discussion of what the new law now in Congress could mean to educational television users. (Author)

In a suit that may have wide implications for the library's function as a preserver, Vanderbilt University has been charged by the Columbia Broadcasting System with violating the network's copyright and making unauthorized and illegal use of CBS property. (Author)

Presents some guideposts for authors when dealing with a publisher. (PG)