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["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Announcement for Public Domain Symposium at NAS
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:06:38 -0400
From: "Paul Uhlir" <PUhlir@xxxxxxx>


The SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA AND
INFORMATION IN
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN will be held 5-6 September 2002, at the National
Academy of Sciences Auditorium, 2100 C Street NW, in Washington, DC. The
Symposium will bring together leading experts and managers from the
public and private sectors who are involved in the creation,
dissemination, and use of STI to discuss: the role, value, and limits of
public-domain STI in the research and education context; the various
legal, economic, and technological pressures on producers of public
domain STI, and their potential effects on research and education; the
existing and proposed approaches for preserving the public domain or
providing "open access" to STI in the United States; and other important
issues in this area that may benefit from further analysis.The meeting
will be free and open to the public, but advance registration is
required. For additional information and registration, please visit the
Symposium web site at:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Public%20Domain%20Symposium%20Announcement.html
 or contact the project director, Paul Uhlir, tel. (202) 334 2807;
e-mail: puhlir@xxxxxxxx