What's wrong with fair-use guidelines for the academic community?

✍ Scribed by Frazier, Kenneth

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 42 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:14<1320::aid-asi9>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

The Conference on Fair-Use (CONFU) guidelines would impose a peculiarly narrow interpretation of fair use in copyright law at a time of rapid transition from print media to digital information. Educators should oppose institutional adoption of guidelines because they undermine the historical commitment to open access to information, contradict the plain language of the law, and set the stage for a more restrictive and expensive scholarly communication system. son, 1968, pp. 173-179). The book-buying public in England and America was well aware of the struggle over copyright that took place from the passage of the Statute of Anne in 1710 until the time of the American Revolution. Public sympathies ran strongly against the booksellers.