AAAS Workshops on Electronic Publishing in Science-Intellectual Property Protections

弗兰克尔 该项目为 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道德、法律和社会影响的理解。该系列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，在大多数情况下，这些出版物仅仅是其印刷出版物的电子复制品；他们在采用在线制作所带来的新功能方面进展缓慢。造成这种情况的原因是多方面的，但电子出版物能否充分发挥其潜力并得到科学界的充分接受，最终取决于建立明确、稳定的法律框架。 即使考虑到最近国家和全球努力将版权法带入信息时代，电子出版的出现也给科学带来了许多知识产权问题。例如，在日益商业化的电子市场中，科学作为“公共利益”的概念能够在多大程度上被理解和重视？确保保护财产利益并鼓励开放沟通和创新的法律框架应该具有哪些特征？在电子出版的背景下如何实施可接受的合理使用例外？动态/交互式作品中要保护的“作品”是什么？知识产权法需要进行哪些修改（如果有的话）来保护科学数据库的创建者和分发者？技术创新可以在多大程度上补充或替代保护作者和出版商复制和发行权的新法律？ 这些和相关问题将成为这个为期两年的项目提案的重点，该项目涉及两个研讨会，并通过一系列工作组会议联系起来，这些工作组会议由科学、电子出版和知识产权法领域的主要利益相关者团体组成。该项目预计将提出建立适用于科学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。为了尽可能确保利益相关者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协会、协会、出版商、媒体以及国会和适当的联邦机构举办简报会。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全国律师和科学家会议（与美国律师协会联合成立的委员会）。已经成立了一个咨询委员会来指导该项目，该委员会吸收了两个委员会在电子出版和知识产权法相关问题上最有知识的成员。

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.