From Edupage: >Fourteen scholarly and educational groups, including the American Council on >Education, the American Library Association and the National Humanities >Alliance, have issued a statement formally announcing their opposition to >the proposals recently developed by the Conference on Fair Use. The >Conference adjourned in May for at least a year, with participants >acknowledging the lack of consensus among the academic organizations, >publishers, software developers, and music and video producers that took >part. The dissenting groups pledged their efforts to ensure that fair use >rights would continue to apply to educational and scholarly uses of >copyrighted material on computer networks and in other digital formats. >(Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Jun 97) Has anyone heard any more details on this proposal and the impact it might have on media studies? ---- Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/ScreenSite Telecommunication & Film/University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite