AAAS Workshops on Electronic Publishing in Science-Intellectual Property Protections

这个项目对NSF知识和分布式智能研究领域做出了贡献，旨在加深我们对知识网络的伦理、法律和社会影响的理解。这一系列的研讨会将探讨与科学电子出版相关的知识产权问题。近年来，科学、工程和医学领域的电子期刊急剧增长。然而，这些出版物大多只是印刷出版物的电子复制品；它们在采用在线生产带来的新功能方面进展缓慢。造成这种情况的原因有很多，但是电子出版物是否能够充分发挥其潜力并被科学界完全接受，最终将取决于建立一个明确而稳定的法律框架。电子出版的出现给科学带来了许多知识产权问题，尽管最近各国和全球都在努力将版权法引入信息时代。例如，在电子市场日益商业化的情况下，科学作为“公益”的概念在多大程度上可以被理解和重视？一个既能确保保护财产权益，又能鼓励公开交流和创新的法律框架应该具备哪些特征？如何在电子出版的背景下实施可接受的合理使用例外？在动态/互动作品中，哪些“作品”受到保护？为了保护科学数据库的创造者和发布者，需要对知识产权法进行哪些修改？在保护作者和出版商的复制和发行权的新法律之外，技术创新在多大程度上可以补充或发挥有用的替代作用？这些问题和相关问题将成为本提案为期两年的项目的重点，该项目包括两个讲习班，由科学、电子出版和知识产权法领域的主要利益攸关方组成的一系列工作组会议联系在一起。预计该项目将提出关于建立适用于科学领域电子出版的美国版权法法律框架的建议，并将通过印刷和电子媒体广泛传播。为了确保利益相关者尽可能多地考虑它们及其对法律和公共政策的影响，美国科学促进会将为科学学会、协会、出版商、新闻界以及国会和适当的联邦机构主办简报会。该项目由美国科学促进会的两个常设委员会共同发起：科学自由与责任委员会和美国律师协会的联合委员会——全国律师和科学家会议。已经成立了一个咨询委员会，由两个委员会中在电子出版和知识产权法相关问题上知识最渊博的成员组成，以指导该项目。

Frankel This project contributes to the NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence research area, being directed at deepening our understanding of the ethical, legal, and social implications of Knowledge Networking. This series of workshops will examine the intellectual property issues associated with electronic publishing in science. Electronic journals in science, engineering and medicine have grown dramatically in recent years. However, for the most part these publications are merely electronic reproductions of their print counterparts; they have been slow to adopt the novel features that online production makes possible. There are a variety of reasons for this, but whether or not electronic publications are to reach their full potential and be fully embraced by the scientific community will ultimately depend on establishing a clear and stable legal framework. The advent of electronic publishing poses a number of intellectual property issues for science, even in light of recent national and global efforts to bring copyright law into the information age. For example, to what extent can the notion of science as a `public good` be understood and valued in the increasing commercialization of the electronic market place? What should be the features of a legal framework that assures the protection of property interests yet encourages open communication and innovation? How will acceptable fair use exceptions be implemented in the context of electronic publishing? What is the `work` to be protected in dynamic/ interactive work? What changes in intellectual property law, if any, are needed to protect the creators and distributors of scientific databases? To what extent can technological innovations supplement or function as useful alternatives to new laws for protecting the reproduction and distribution rights of authors and publishers? These and related questions will be the focus of this proposal for a two-year project involving two workshops linked by a series of working group meetings consisting of key stakeholder groups in the sciences, electronic publishing, and intellectual property law. Recommendations for establishing a legal framework for U.S. copyright law as applied to electronic publishing in science are expected to be generated by the project and will be widely disseminated via print and electronic media. To ensure as much as possible their consideration by stakeholders and their impact on law and public policy, AAAS will sponsor briefings for scientific societies, associations, and publishers, and the press as well as Congress and appropriate federal agencies. The project is co-sponsored by two AAAS standing committees: the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a joint committee with the American Bar Association. An advisory committee, drawing on the most knowledgeable members of both committees on issues related to electronic publishing and intellectual property law, has been formed to guide the project.