News from the Center for Intellectual Property

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News & Notes  Newsletter of the CIP

Spring 2008
in this issue

:: NIH Open Access Mandate: A Careful Look at Two Options for Retaining
Authors' Rights
:: Peer-to-Peer Filing Sharing on Campus Under Fire Yet Again
:: 8th Annual Symposium Highlights
:: )ollectanea Blog Celebrates One-Year Anniversary!




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NIH Open Access Mandate: A Careful Look at Two Options for Retaining Authors'
Rights

-- "Do Nothing" and "Do it Early and Efficiently"
by Georgia K. Harper, I.P. Scholar
<blockquote>"The Director of the National
Institutes of Health shall require that all
investigators funded by the NIH submit or
have submitted for them to the National
Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an
electronic version of their final,
peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for
publication to be made publicly available no
later than 12 months after the official date
of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall
implement the public access policy in a
manner consistent with copyright
law."</blockquote>

And with those 76 words, the former NIH
suggestion, that researchers it funds should
deposit copies of their published research
articles in NIH's open access repository,
PubMed Central, became a  mandate
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g9HGG7icVDLhuNKLxAwAvLrET0PVpDvNTkCmK5W506EsvukroJE7BgH1aIgOq-O4VcARg==) early
this year.
Many people have worked tirelessly to make
this happen and all believe fervently that
the benefits from open
access (OA) to the immense body of research
funded by the NIH will be monumental. If you
are new to the subject of OA, you can learn
about it at a plethora of Websites devoted to
the subject, such as  Peter Suber's Open Access
News
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5x76OaTO44B1sGNABMiVXyOyf7b3McO3H0cFujfI
swU_UbHLLJTsB3VI41wKfwSBVKPKWkCY9PPgVImPAFRuYgXpY9TdjjV0K9MmVw9MiFyMFAXtEhb2A
rqsxlwa2yqV8of6QJ-D5dgvA==) and the Create Change Website
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5wMcwPvtv2gCI9ZNQxG42rF9aUoWJmfvtR6M1yC_
zT1tZGEOOU6R60xfA7D8ud9_KNYPEpIsk2gTwJCQkf7FhLLc1MIw62_uNbDrQQKBNmIrA==).
Open Access itself will not be the topic of
this article; rather,
here I would like to explore two
institutional options for complying with the
new mandate.The mandate involves two related
responsibilities. First is the responsibility
to post articles that report NIH funded
research. But, in order to post, the author
of the article must possess a set of rights
to give NIH to make the posted article
publicly available. Because most authors are
asked to assign all their rights to their
publishers when their articles are accepted
for publication, retaining sufficient rights
to give to NIH can present a problem. It is
this second responsibility, to retain
adequate public access rights, that I want to
address here. Institutions have many options
for facilitating author retention of the set
of rights needed to give NIH its "public
access license." I won't invent a new name
for one of the ones I want to explore -- it's
the old "do nothing" option, and one that I
think many institutions will find quite
attractive. I'll contrast it with one I think
is more effective and efficient -- the "do it
early and efficiently" option, the one I
would most recommend.Read more...
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5ww1hl1TKM3oRyd_v2UUhqaJkvoqWDoeZilOdcI1
WZVhFzrQ8URChwYzipSaRsjxN4PjIsIP6etQyDCVtYiz-4HGBnABBGeQOuhj8bLYft3lnx9OPDWj8
l2g8c95OSmJO2CS_25pPyxH_BG4iasAAxG8RCMziHE5Cbpzee56TeW-A==)Georgia K.
Harper
 (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5yqntYYR-wQvbapBfaBQUJRTBbcGGdf-iWSHs0-
hnT-yDxtkyn5k9_XLcf5MhVd-JAbMBrbi_E2waOoVIFdvJEeJXEr8Xcn0W-ivKYACQhLcmTkUeS5o
QYrlLEs-PxISGjmYeVpYWmKXM_h_wuX-VrQqCPBfC8fzE8=)is
the Scholarly
Communications
Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin
Libraries,
where she focuses on issues of digital
access. She
was Senior Attorney and manager of the
Intellectual
Property Section of the Office of General
Counsel for
the University of Texas System until August
2006,
where she specialized in copyright law. Ms.
Harper is
also the 2006-2008 IP Scholar at the Center for
Intellectual Property.



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Peer-to-Peer Filing Sharing on Campus Under Fire Yet Again

Up on the Hill with Kenneth Salomon & James Burger

When we last reported on the content
industry's effort to have Washington regulate
college and university campus networks (see
previous article
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5w-eG0pGOLdE0fWXllpn-yZ2MDS-0XGLMYZBmatn
cS5XtHiBcOuIvrQuDXPDzp_KRagxstE8ja9obyhGkdE-iOni0ijXp81qywswpF02KHSVwvOi32UEF
Y9U_Z1YVSM7EgOUjS8OnC_NNTM33vx7M3nBaJsghZTOSbDsSdfmIMUSw==)), the education
community in September had successfully kept
the most burdensome peer-to-peer ("P2P")
regulatory requirements out of the final
version of the Senate's Higher Education Act
reauthorization, the Higher Education
Amendments of 2007 (the "HEA Bill").  As
predicted, however, the content industry -
primarily the Motion Picture Association of
America (the "MPAA") - this year renewed its
efforts in the House of Representatives to
impose new expensive and more stringent
burdens on the higher education institutions
to halt unlawful P2P file sharing.  This time
it had better success even though the MPAA
admitted that its underlying "factual" basis
for imposing the new burdens turned out to be
badly flawed.Read the rest of this
update...
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xzKhddLnRtFKi99RjHFYCAHsS3JvTGNWVtBCvQFNQ6199EEPavmNcvutGVQMQjtJS41E9wT_X1n4w
PYZ8cNnZJSIEHMNfiOLI1Ch0zYctstADbG1c9L7EpMQ36myz-W0QLDVA==)Attorney
Kenneth
Salomon
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5yzgpCcO6d1P0M-lfbJK_7yRXThbcUKToAJXMowX
jBvvS9YwqG0w6NQVLSi4ErsqVyveBDiw1vM--UvFGYchMzF2rYgioO0X0TZ3HGIy5XaXITIbTTwXr
X3) is a
Member with Dow Lohnes, PLLC, and is head of the
firm's Government Relations Practice Group. He
works with clients in the areas of government
relations and public policy, as well as on
issues involving commercial and public
broadcasting and distributed learning. Mr.
Salomon's decades of
practice have focused on such areas as
communications, government relations and
legislation, intellectual property, mass
media, and post-secondary education.

Attorney Jim Burger
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5z5473hu3p6b9hcP-1LPo0nqiVi_D7LmA472jb4g
wCtO0tah2QYiDPqIsqNkHgtTpqzzEOa5ZTLAD13rNB3dZqH4ex9sA_rk9H4bxCiVRsvl9LzFOHWvn
hs) is a Member with
Dow Lohnes, PLLC, specializing in
representation of technology companies on
intellectual property, communications and
government policy matters. Mr. Burger has
worked extensively on legal and policy issues
arising from the confluence of digital
technology, intellectual property protection
and government regulation, particularly as
affecting the Internet.



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8th Annual Symposium Highlights

May 28-30, 2008

Join the CIP for its annual symposium
exploring the relationship between the U.S.
copyright monopoly, technological innovation
and higher education institutions.



We'll explore the high-stakes conflict
between copyright law, exclusive ownership,
and monopoly (on one side) and a cultural
landscape that encourages sharing and
collaboration (on the other side). Where do
higher education interests reside?  We will
discuss these issues in the context of:


* The Development of User Generated
Content

* Mass Digitization Projects

* The Transformation of "Authorship"

* Use of Wikis, Blogs and other
Technologies in the Development of
Scholarship


This is your premier opportunity to join the
CIP for three exciting days of discussion on
copyright in the digital arena. We are
gathering, all in one convenient location, a
wide range of scholars and
practitioners from higher education, business
and industry, law, policy, government, and
nonprofit sectors.Program highlights this year include:


Keynote Speakers:

* James Boyle, Professor of
Law, Duke University School of Law;
Co-Founder, Center for the Study of the
Public Domain

* Georgia Harper,
Scholarly Communications Advisor, University
of Texas at Austin Libraries

*
See the full list of other outstanding
speakers...
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GoNBAlIQTtIq1zdd9Z1bFY2A==)



Pre-Conference Seminars:


*
Copyright 101
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11N9-0dQUaJmTFcX8gdnGmOD_dKwuEHoxbv6oenoWUYVyhUITrLOAyJlT5WmiNsYu0XiLvs4pa9hb
fRVEnpM9CzIsfD4StqBTQzxoMyvBL0SZ85)

* Public
Domain & Fair Use
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BgeOq6GJ9U4wrsnZud3DjbTfJrSHjZdbfW8SNxpl3pvXgVZNgjcLy89S-rKXAJ6AfEglTsDHFUqpc
UlZ__D5NH6_2QLbmbb77L7s_jtcbhOjInBmh-C9443_i0=)


<div align="center">***NEW SYMPOSIUM
TRACK***
<blockquote>Institute
for Copyright Leadership &
Management (ICLM)
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K3Pe_HoTahPFkQcC3VqbTYTw==)</blockquote>
In addition to the full symposium agenda, the
CIP has partnered with the National
Leadership Institute (NLI) to bring to you a
unique program that
promises to meet the needs of many
institutions struggling to better manage the
changes in copyright law. The goal of the
Institute is to increase participants'
capacity for change management and to lead
copyright initiatives on their campuses.

Register today for yourself...with a
colleague...or receive a special team
discount when you assemble a work group of
three representatives, one each from any of
the following areas at your institution to
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counsel; library;
information technology; and faculty.


But wait...there is more!

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Night!
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* Opening Night
Reception

* Roundtable
Discussions
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Contest"
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)ollectanea Blog Celebrates One-Year Anniversary!

Collected Perspectives on Copyright

CIP's blog celebrated its one-year
anniversary this February!  Georgia
Harper, the Center's Intellectual Property
Scholar, and a handful of her guest bloggers
have kept a large and growing audience
informed and involved about current
events, ideas, and
trends in the arena of copyright through
their  observations, questions, pondering and
reading.Recent postings have included:



*
Turnitin wins important victory in fight to
combat plagiarism (and the bloat of
copyright)
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WA92KUx5b6w9ZicxjSaTeolLvXFScksvUt40a97H9CtGUMEzxvmHSD3tmLrHg33HFiousYJPL07X9
Hcl1viXqvx67VBrzuzPXhC0eC0GH3a92q-tb_Bo--ahSn99sX9BxBnVkVM8oG4ctfGKojcbC7EKsN
8YU5UV_llbQ==)

* Common
sense asserts itself occasionally
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GHnmVcqxPqIxVygsOdKxWRqdfoA4Bls8rYtiS4SddrPLQqDXdHHGw9ML0XU8iR0AhZbsQRWgBTVZR
dIFktZJma5-QHVd8Q6Ca7SjB6XLH7q_AqCG6AgzElM_VN1gcDG9fiz9WNYIr_vf-f86iFF2Y7luHE
QCXOlY08_rA==)

* Semantic
web and copyright
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7y50QfYrhrzSoFu36HROwUaPdgne2qwhmx3PyYTBDI6trkDc1_Yr7hmWabdcSPjKD5NXzIfTJqyDI
VUZslKE1D5IVGzK75ylI8QlTRNZtbmBIIGpX13XbXM42HSP8b7i0PR6jew31v17r5MPqa92UUgX_8
=)

* What
are the components of "risk assessment?"
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dtOCCpwu45tN2bXQfJMB9U3R1n3usI_QrQi39JzTPwa9dHjwGBqlVaOsVT9fUr_gCUgECnUUf7Tk2
OO3PHiZdbypSPB6DpiJU8U_RvUt0pjqZNm_OLAk2zETBhUAbmt1UhOfF782cR0SQJKs-lwolRIFak
=)

* NIH
Open Access Mandate necessitates
institutional initiatives regarding
reservation of rights
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eF8BWYtiWagyJRT8bYW17qUYJQjBBV7016xlyB_Iy_-ydKIqIlpk8_jVV8_iNZjk4st77_jvS49Zn
nX8iK_3VH90aD9GMkU65vzktR7IOx4qUNqyz5IK5_J2v03VQFxW20KARy04yKmud4KFPNn9nseyQq
PGbpB0nI2ag==)

* Congressman
Lessig?
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7DVd6mZjqxu6mXUCPO0uXmp6PX8TGZR4WiHm2lfhdrdBIPG2KrwOHmyGDJs8MEGkwojXJpgCyHS_A
QaN6bAZf0fPTLYAQsTR6IuHDIJ2JoNHISvHKVBnbK0ImYq0fIaYx8q1IpXonha8Jxq)

* Patry's
unbelievable story of dumpster trash
copyright crime
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Cyq5FSzGU5wzZZ5sXuXKt2lt30BgZ6egLak00cuncJWZJhcnv
FpItL2QHq0TqrkLgt2Y6rtriUNpeexKtLPc7e0qBZvW2mc15W0VG1XxNZ8ZxOm9x0QOXdguzBt4AR
ZmQxY2ycadBjbcOPpZKIhw1R0HVhEGZN8hg1Kg_4wtjRjrXHv39izgSsEm5WAGZMrey8PgQAENfHW
fr9H44ju9sw==)

Read. Comment & talk back. Subscribe to the
feed. Join the growing dialogue...
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