AAAS Workshops on Electronic Publishing in Science-Intellectual Property Protections

这个项目对美国国家科学基金会的知识和分布式情报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。这一系列讲习班将审查与科学中的电子出版有关的知识产权问题。近年来，科学、工程和医学领域的电子期刊大幅增长。然而，在很大程度上，这些出版物只是纸质出版物的电子复制品；它们在采用在线生产使之成为可能的新颖特征方面进展缓慢。这样做的原因有很多，但电子出版物是否要充分发挥其潜力并得到科学界的充分接受，最终将取决于建立一个明确和稳定的法律框架。电子出版的出现给科学带来了许多知识产权问题，即使考虑到最近国家和全球为将版权法带入信息时代所做的努力。例如，在电子市场日益商业化的情况下，科学作为一种“公共产品”的概念可以在多大程度上得到理解和重视？在确保保护财产利益的同时又鼓励开放交流和创新的法律框架应具有哪些特点？如何在电子出版方面实施可接受的合理使用例外？在动态/互动工作中，需要保护的`work‘是什么？为了保护科学数据库的创建者和分发者，知识产权法需要做出哪些改变？技术创新在多大程度上可以补充或替代新法律，以保护作者和出版商的复制和发行权？这些问题和相关问题将是这一为期两年的项目提案的重点，该项目涉及两个讲习班，这些讲习班通过一系列工作组会议联系在一起，工作组会议由科学、电子出版和知识产权法领域的主要利益攸关方组成。为美国版权法建立适用于科学领域电子出版的法律框架的建议预计将由该项目产生，并将通过印刷和电子媒体广泛传播。为了尽可能多地确保利益攸关方考虑它们及其对法律和公共政策的影响，AAAS将为科学协会、协会和出版商、媒体以及国会和适当的联邦机构主办简报会。该项目由AAAS的两个常设委员会共同发起：科学自由和责任委员会以及全国律师和科学家会议，后者是与美国律师协会的联合委员会。已经成立了一个咨询委员会，由这两个委员会在电子出版和知识产权法相关问题上最有见识的成员组成，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.