I. Major Issues Discussed 1995-1996

A. Creation and Ownership of Intellectual Property in a University Community

1. Individual vs. University: Participation in creation and ownership of copyright or patent
   • Work for hire
   • University-supported projects
   • Outside consulting and company ownership
2. Access by members of university community
   
   • Shopright concept - granting university members free use of copyrighted materials created by members of that community
   • What are the rights of the university community?
3. Traditional written materials vs. software
4. Protection of Intellectual Property - What is and should be the university role in supporting community members in managing their Intellectual Property?

B. Use of Intellectual Property owned by others

1. Fair Use in traditional and new media
2. Obtaining permission to use copyrighted materials
   • What information on copyright law, interpretations, and fair use does the university offer to its community members?
   • Should a university offer a central clearing house function?
3. Cost of rights
   • How are charges determined?
   • Impact on research and scholarship
4. Digital materials in the library
   • Full text books and journals
   • Electronic reserves
   • Images
   • Music
5. Classroom use - What is permitted/restricted in the classroom?
6. New electronic course materials - What is permitted/restricted in the course materials?
   • multimedia software
   • web pages & other internet publications
7. Research - Fair Use or Not - What counts as "reasonable" for fair use?
8. Publications - new Intellectual Property guidelines
9. University responsibility for content of material on its servers

II. Visitors

• Mary Case, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association of Research Libraries on Thursday, August 22, 1996, 2:00 p.m., in 317 Butler Library. She has experience and background in scholarly journals, and is currently involved in central issues such as:
  • the problems caused by current scholarly publishing trends in academic, public, and government arenas;
  • serial prices, copyright issues, and electronic publishing;
  • specific research projects, including the development of unique databases of scholarly journal editors, the transfer of scholarly journals to commercial presses, university copyright policies, etc. ; and
  • changes introduced by electronic publishing of scholarly journals.
  We discussed copyright and IP issues from a national perspective and explained to Mary what we at Columbia have been focussing on in the IP committee.

III. Events 1996-97

Workshop on Technology of Terms and Conditions - September 24-26, 1996

1. Goal - A shared language for usage rights
2. Issues - security, authentication, use
3. NSF-funded
4. Interdisciplinary Workshop
5. Brief report in October issue of D-Lib magazine

B. Attorney Barbara Hoffman - Fair Use Debate and Electronic Images, Issues for Artists - September 18, 1996

IV. Activities for 1996-1997

1. Major Topics Discussed
   • The Web Page for the CRIA Intellectual Property Committee
   • The project to inform the Columbia Community about relevant Intellectual Property concerns.
   • Trademarks
   • The definition of CU Community
   • Report on the Workshop on Technologies for Terms and Conditions
   • Electronic Reserves and policy
   • Columbia effort at putting materials on-line - CC Reader and others out of copyright in U.S. but potentially not in other countries.
2. Minutes of the Meetings
   • September 18, 1996
   • November 13, 1996
   • January 23, 1997
   • April 16, 1997

V. Related Links

• http://fairuse.stanford.edu
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/index.html
• http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october96/10clips.html#conference
• http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/confu.htm
• http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/guzlet.html
• http://mjosa.stanford.edu/rmr/IMA/index.html
• http://www.ucop.edu/irc/wp/wp_Docs/wpd006.html
• http://www.nmjc.cc.nm.us/copyrightbay/howto.html
• http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo/Fair_Use_Policy.html

VI. Members

The role of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Center for Research on Information Access, directed by Judith L. Klavans is to bring together related projects at Columbia, and to develop a strategy to manage the difficult questions, both theoretical and practical, arising from digital data distribution. The Intellectual Property committee is chaired by James Hoover, Professor of Law and Law Librarian at Columbia University, and staffed by Mary Summerfield, Coordinator for the Online Books Project.

Members are:
Beryl Abrams, Associate General Counsel
Bradford Garton, Associate Professor of Music
Jane Ginsburg, Janklow Professor of Literature and Art Property Law
Angela Giral, Director of Avery Library
James Hoover, Professor of Law Studies
Raphael Kasper, Associate Vice Provost
Judith Klavans, Director, Center for Research on Information Access
Carol Mandel, Deputy University Librarian
Robert McClintock, Director, Institute for Learning Technologies, and Professor, Teachers College
Stephen Messer, Assistant Director, CITI, Columbia Business School
David Millman, Manager of Research & Development, Academic Information Systems
Pat Molholt, Assistant Vice President of Health Sciences
Stephen Murray, Professor of Art History & Archaeology
Elaine Sloan, Vice President, Information Services and University Librarian
Mary Summerfield, Coordinator for the Online Books Project
Kim Taipale, Director, Office of New Media Development, Columbia Innovation Enterprises

This page is located at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~klavans/Cria/IP/ip.html

This page was last updated on 11/19/96