Newsgroups: alt.etext From: dell@wiretap.spies.com (Thomas Dell) Subject: [comp.infosystems.gopher] Copyright and Texaco case, archive Message-ID: Organization: The Internet Wiretap Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 06:49:50 GMT Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.Virginia.EDU (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: Copyright and Texaco case Message-ID: Organization: University of Virginia Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 01:11:51 GMT Lines: 102 June 8, 1993 TEXACO Case Archive Available on the Internet The Association of Research Libraries' Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing is gathering an Internet resource file of materials related to Copyright, and particularly the Texaco case, which is the most recent landmark case in defining Fair Use within the journals scene. As they are received, the documents are being converted into a series of ftp-able and gopher-able files housed at two Internet sites: the University of Virginia libraries, an ARL member; and the Coalition for Networked Information. Currently available are the following files; wherever possible, there is a choice of formats (ASCII, WordPerfect, Postscript) to make reading and retrieval easy for as many users of the network resources as possible: o U.S. Copyright Act: Article 107 (Fair Use) o U.S. Copyright Act: Article 108 (Libraries) o Fair Use, a working paper by Ken Crews (San Jose State) for ARL, October 1992 o Texaco, Inc., original brief filed o Ritchie Thomas' (ARL Attorney) Summary of Leval Decision, September 1992 o Texaco, Inc., brief filed March 1993 o Amicus (joint) brief of ARL, AALL, SLA, etc., March 1993 o Amicus brief of ALA (American Library Association), March 1993 o Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellees filed for publishers by the AAP (Association of American Publishers), April 1993 o We hope to be able to add other briefs as they become available to us. To read the files, access either one of the following sites and menus: I. University of Virginia Libraries (ftp or gopher): ftp ftp.lib.virginia.edu anonymous cd /pub/alpha/copyright OR gopher gopher.virgnia.edu (then choose as follows:) U Va Library Services University Library Resources University Library resources (Alphabetic Organization) Copyright, Law, Universities & Libraries II. Coalition for Networked Information (ftp or gopher): ftp ftp.cni.org cd /ARL cd texaco.amicus; and also cd fairuse OR gopher gopher cni.org 70 (then choose as follows:) ARL (There are documents in each of the follwing two:) Copyright law, libraries....by Ken Crews American Geophysical Union.....etc. Our thanks goes to those who cooperated in making this resource possible by giving permission, sending corrected diskettes, or mounting the information. Particular acknowledgements are due to: o Ritchie Thomas and Susan Weller, Squire Sanders & Dempsey (ARL attorneys) o The American Association of Law Libraries, the Special Libraries Association, the Medical Library Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Alliance, and the Association of Academic Health Science Library Directors (all Amicus partners) o Carol Henderson and the American Library Association offices, Washington, DC o Carol Rischer and the Association of American Publishers offices, Washington, DC o Thomas Smart, and Richard De Sevo (Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, attorneys for Texaco) and Texaco Inc. John Price-Wilkin of the Alderman Library, University of Virginia, and Craig Summerhill of the CNI mounted the files for access. For questions, suggestions, observations, or comments on these files, or if you have other related documents available that you can submit to us, please contact: Ann Okerson, Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries ann@cni.org 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 phone: 202-296-2296 fax: 202-872-0884