From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 15:41:39 -0400
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Subject: Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy,
 National Academies New Report
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The National Academies Board on Science, Technology and Economic 
Policy  (STEP)  has just issued a report titled "Copyright in the 
Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy". I've not yet read the 
full report, but based on the summary one area that it highlights is 
the continuing lack of empirical data to help inform policymaking in 
this area. (I cannot resist noting that I served on a related study 
some years ago that produced a report titled "the Digital Dilemma"; 
that committee, too, was struck by the glaring lack of real evidence 
to support copyright related policy development; this is a very 
long-standing problem. It would be wonderful to see some real 
progress here, and I hope that this new report will help to focus 
thinking about collecting such data. )

Information on the report (which is available for free downloading) 
can be found at:

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/step/copyrightpolicy/

the report itself is here

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14686

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI