From: "Alan (Miburi-san) Wexelblat" <wex@media.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 13:23:18 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Help the NII (if you want to)
Message-ID: <9312012121.AA07576@media.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 13:56:09 -0500 (EST)
From: richard chimera - 522.1 <carm@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: hcil@cs.umd.edu, hcidc@cs.umd.edu, hciumd@cs.umd.edu, dis@umdd.umd.edu
Subject: Help the NII (Natl Info Infrastructure)

Article 12722 of comp.software-eng:
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,misc.int-property,misc.legal.computing
Path: kong.gsfc.nasa.gov!cs.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!eddie.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!world!srctran
From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: Patent Office seeks advice on information superhighway
Message-ID: <CH7zIL.MA5@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 20:56:45 GMT
Lines: 41
Xref: kong.gsfc.nasa.gov comp.software-eng:12722 misc.int-property:2259 misc.legal.computing:4688

    The Patent Office is soliciting suggestions and comments on intellectual
property aspects of the National Information Infrastructure. (They had a
public meeting on the 18th at the Patent Office).  Some of the questions
they seek comments on are:

   Is the existing copyright law adequate to protect the rights of those who
will make their available via the NII? What statutory or regulatory changes,
if any, should be made?

   Should standards or other requirements be adopted for the labeling or
encoding of works available via the NII so that copyright owners and users
can identify copyrighted works and the conditions for their use?

   Should a licensing system be developed for certain uses of any or all works
available via the NII?  If so, should there be a single type of licensing or
should the NII support a multiplicity of licensing systems?

   What types of education programs might be developed to increase public
awareness of intellectual property laws, their importance to the economy, and
their application to works available via the NII.

   (More information can be found in the November 9, 1993 Official Gazette).

   You can send your ideas to the Patent Office up until December 10, 1993.
Address your comments to:
		Terri Southwick
		c/o Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
		US Patent and Trademark Office
		Box 4
		Washington, DC  20231

		fax: 703-305-8885
		tel: 703-305-9300

Greg Aharonian
Internet Patent News Service
-- 
**************************************************************************
 Greg Aharonian                                      srctran@world.std.com
 Source Translation & Optimization                            617-489-3727
 P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178