Re: From the Chronicle/German Law

["Intellectual Property Virtual Scholar" <ipscholar@xxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues:  I have not see the actual text of the law, but putting 
together various pieces....  In 1996, the World Intellectual Property 
Organization completed negotiation of a treaty that called for such 
things as "anticircumvention" provisions.  Complying with that treaty 
led to the US enactment of the DMCA.  In 2001, the European Union 
issued a "directive" to its member countries requiring them to comply 
as well.  The new German legislation is (I believe) intended to conform 
German law to the WIPO Treaty and the EU directive, but with 
exceptions, etc., that generated the news item here.

Kenny Crews
www.copyright.iupui.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Pomea" <npomea@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003 6:52 am
Subject: From the Chronicle of Higher Education

> *  A HOTLY CONTESTED COPYRIGHT LAW adopted on Friday by 
>   Germany's Parliament gives universities and research 
>   institutions considerable leeway to digitally distribute 
>   copyrighted materials among students and scholars. The law 
>   has been welcomed by academics, but academic publishers say 
>   it will force them out of business.
>   --> SEE http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003041407n.htm
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