>> What do those of you out there think?
>After much information gathering on electronic reserves problems and
>prospects, I think it is naive to assume that a consortium of CCC,
>publishers and libraries could effectively deal with the issues
>involved.
I'm for being naive then. It sounds odd to me that any form of responsible discussion and exploration could do anything but good. Of course there is always the possibility that a tower of Babel might rise - not by email surely :-)
>(including all considerations of digitizing, storing, networking,
>and multiple simultaneous display, all of which are highly
>desirable) in the appropriate time frame would be quite impossible.
If that's quite impossible then the time frame stretches indefinitely - which is not so desirable.
>The battle lines remain drawn as they have always been, with
>publishers and intermediary profiteers on the one side and
>libraries, information, technology and users on the other side.
As long as you continue to see it as a battle (and I notice you have left the originators out of the scenario:-) I think that the time frame is approaching infinite. Has the idea of collaboration, communication, co-operation been forgotten altogether?
>The copyright law that is supposed to regulate the interaction of
>these interests is not adaptable to electronic technologies as it is
>currently written. Because of this fact, electronic reserves
>remains an elusive vision for the time being-
Since when has an existing law or set of laws precluded Mankind from having and realising visions?
>Publishers, scholars, libraries,information users and
>government should be involved in a dialogue about how this situation
>can be remedied, and the sooner the better..
I agree - provided that the originators and the profiteers (could you be a little more specific about what constitutes a profiteer?...do we not all profit from communication of knowledge?) can join in the discussions..
Jackie Mackay
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