Re: Consortia

From: Allen W. Dean <76557.1122[_at_]CompuServe.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 94 16:20:47 EST

Yes, it's true. I'm the one that wondered whether a consortium of interested parties on "electronic reserve rooms" would be warranted. This suggestion, and suggestions from several others led to a lively discussion on CNI-Copyright last fall. I had suggested a consortium because a joint effort would be less redundant and would communicate more interest and importance to publishers than would individual projects.

Apparently there _is_ no such defined group as yet, although several interested parties got together at the Fall 1993 Task Force Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information on November 20, 1993. Paul Kobulnicky (knicky[_at_]vms.cis.pitt.edu) or Ronald Naylor (rnaylor[_at_]umiami.ir.miami.edu) may want to comment on that meeting.

As many of you know, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a not-for-profit organization set up to facilitate legal access to copyrighted materials. If any of you have specific electronic projects for which CCC could seek publisher authorizations to "copy", we would be interested.

Thanks,

Allen W. Dean
Coordinator, Academic Permissions Service Copyright Clearance Center

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