[Ecommerce] Exception for LOC?

[Jeff Williams]

Manon and all,

  Such a exception for the Library of Congress would not be unprecedented
in the USG.  However it appears that some of these eight universities
didn't do their discovery very well.  Tisk. Tisk...  Shame on them!

  However suing Congress and the LOC for violation of copy rights
would be not only unusual but also a bit of an embarrassment as it
is congress that recently passed some new protections under
copy right that were and remain very unpopular.  So congress
looks now like it may have been hoist on it's own patard, yet again...

  Interesting as well is that Columbia university did this study.
Could it be that it was not included in this partnership and missed
out on some grant dough?  Heavens that would be terrible wouldn't
it?  >;) and perhaps the "Rest of the story"....

Manon Ress wrote:

> QUOTE
> A slow-moving project by the Library of Congress to create an archive of
> digital materials announced its first set of partners for the project
> Thursday, a deal that involves grants totaling $15 million to eight
> education institutions.
> SNIP
>   The topics to be archived will include the dot-com era, the 2003
> California gubernatorial recall election, digital television and
> satellite mapping.
>
> Although Congress has urged the library to take the lead in the program,
> a legal analysis commissioned by the library said the program could
> raise liabilities under copyright law.
>
> In a 2003 analysis of the program, June Besek of Columbia University's
> law school in New York said that a digital copyright law created
> uncertainties for the library. "Circumventing technical access controls
> to obtain access to copyrighted works" may be in violation of the law,
> unless the Librarian of Congress created an exception for itself, she
> warned.
> END OF QUOTE
>
> In Techdaily Sept 30, 2004
> Library Of Congress Picks Partners For Digital Archiving by Drew Clark
> http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/
>
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