National Academies: Legislators Should Go Slow on Electronic Copyright Laws

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

........from cni-copyright....

Presented by the National Academies:

Legislators Should Go Slow on Electronic Copyright Laws

        Nov. 3 -- Legislators should delay overhauling
        intellectual property laws or public policy to protect
        digital information until markets have had time to
        adjust to new business models and until sufficient
        research on electronic copyright issues is conducted,
        says a new National Research Council report.

"The committee raised the question of whether the notion of a 
"copy" remains an appropriate foundation for copyright law in 
the digital age."

see http://www.national-academies.org/