Public Domain Symposium Sept. '02, U.S. NAS, (Wash.DC)

[Tom Moritz <tmoritz@xxxxxxxx>]

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> SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA AND INFORMATION IN
> THE PUBLIC DOMAIN will be held 5-6 September 2002, at the [U.S.] 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

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