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 **************************************************************************** ********** 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? > >---- >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 > > Stephen O'Riordan Film & Video Library Univ. of Calif. at San Diego 9500 Gilman dr. La Jolla, CA. 92093-0504 ph - (619) 534-7981 fax - (619) 534-7180 e-mail - [log in to unmask] FVL Web - http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/fvl/FVLPAGE.HTM ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]