Jeremy,
 
The best way to visit these issues is at the websites of;
 
CONFU (the conference itself) <http://ninch.cni/news/Confu_Report.html>
ALA (American Library Assoc.<http://www.ala.org/
ARL (Assoc. of Research Libraries) <http://arl.cni.org>
 
All have direct information on the debate which centers around multimedia.
 
Stephen
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At 08:43 AM 6/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>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?
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>Jeremy Butler
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Stephen O'Riordan
 
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