Dear Colleagues, Appreciated additional responses and thoughts on copyright. One post deserves comment: someone wrote a note to the effect that much of this discussion involved American issues. Not so. There are world-wide copyright laws and mutual recognition of national laws provided under the Berne Convention. Nearly all nations have copyright laws, and most honor other nations' laws -- at least in principle, though enforcement of claims is sometimes difficult in fact. There are several web sites devoted to copyright information: The Copyright Web Site http://www.benedict.com/ US Copyright Office Home Page http://www.loc.gov/copyright/ The UT System Crash Course in Copyright http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm Stanford University Fair Use Web Site http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ Australian Copyright Council http://www.copyright.org.au/ UK Copyright Licensing Agency Home Page http://www.cla.co.uk/ Copyright resources Online at Yale University http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html Copyright Resources for Web Builders and Multimedia http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/webbuilder/copyright.html There is plenty more on the Web for those who wish to look more deeply into copyright and intellectual property rights. It will interest you to know that not all is yet said and done in the copyright case over "Wind Done Gone." --snip-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/26/business/26BOOK.html May 26, 2001 'WIND' BOOK WINS RULING IN U.S. COURT By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK The United States Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned a preliminary injunction yesterday blocking publication of "The Wind Done Gone," a novel that revisits the plantation setting of "Gone With the Wind" from a slave's perspective. --snip-- Best regards, Ken Friedman -- ******************************************** Ken Friedman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Knowledge Management Norwegian School of Management Visiting Professor Advanced Research Institute School of Art and Design Staffordshire University Norway +47 22.98.50.00 Telephone +47 22.98.51.11 Telefax Home office Byvaegen 13 S-24012 Torna Haellestad Sweden +46 (46) 53.245 Telephone +46 (46) 53.345 Telefax email: ken.friedman@bi.no ********************************************