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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: Copyright and Humanities Report from British Academy
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The British Academy  has just issued a report discussing problems 
that copyright is raising in humanities and social science research. 
There's a press release here

http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/release.asp?NewsID=219

and the full report can be downloaded from this page

http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/copyright/index.html

While the details of copyright vary between the United States and the 
United Kingdom in important particulars (notably the US fair use 
provisions, which I believe are comparatively stronger and more wide 
reaching than UK fair dealing), this report will be of interest to 
some CNI-announce readers, particularly in conjunction with the 
recent ACLS Commission report on Cyberinfrastructure and the 
Humanities.

(Thanks to Peter Suber's always-invaluable Open Access News Blog

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

for the initial pointer on this.)

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI