Re: Economics of dead tree (was: Re: A Radical Thesis)

From: Karen Coyle <kec[_at_]stubbs.ucop.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 96 17:11:25 PDT

On Thu, 25 Apr 96 06:30 BST-1 Mike Holderness wrote:
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>> Perhaps the Library of Congress will have to provide for electronic
>> deposit of materials and become the site of record.
>
> Yes. It will.

Actually, when the Working Group on Copyright from the Department of Commerce suggested an electronic depository for copyrighted digital materials (presumably at the L of C), this was resoundly nixed by the company representatives who testified at the public hearings held in 1995. Their reasoning, as I understood it, was that depositing their electronic works might make them available through the Library. Though mentioned in the Green Paper, no such proposal was included in the White Paper.

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Karen Coyle <kec[_at_]stubbs.ucop.edu>
University of California - Library Automation http://www.dla.ucop.edu/~kec Received on Sat Apr 27 1996 - 00:11:31 GMT