All OFAC
litigation materials, including complaint;
and All media coverage.
Copyright
The legal intellectual property rights and
protections afforded to authors and other
creators of works of original expression under
the U. S. Constitution, together with the
exemptions and limitations applicable to such
rights and protections.
See
Copyright Primer
at: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/cprim
er. ©Primer: An Online Interactive
Introduction. (Updated regularly.) Provides an
overview of the underlying
principles behind copyright in the United States
and discusses the parameters of use and access
of copyrighted material. Center for Intellectual
Property, University of Maryland University
College, 2002.
(A,H)
See "Copyright and Public Access
to Federally-
Funded Scientific Research: The Erroneous
Premise of Open-Access Advocates and H.R. 2613"
memo at the Professional/Scholarly
Publishing Division (PSP) website
Cybercrime
Technological and public policy issues relating
to the treatment of speech, conduct or other
activities that are considered or proposed to be
made unlawful in their occurrence on the
Internet, including new matters such as cyber
squatting and spamming, as well as more
traditional matters such as fraud, identify theft
and piracy. (A,H)
Database Protection
Legal rights and protections afforded to the
providers of collections of discrete
items of information (regardless of media
format), which may be used and distributed in
their entirety or through extraction of portions;
includes technological means of providing such
protection. (A,H)
Digital Rights Management
Technological, economic, legal, administrative
and public policy issues associated with systems
that are designed to facilitate digital content
commerce by enabling the identification of
content in digital formats, its ownership, and
the terms and conditions for its use, in direct
or indirect association with the content itself.
(A,H)
See AAP White
Paper "What Consumers Want in Digital Rights
Management (DRM)" of other related documents at
the AAP website.
Distance Education - Distance Learning
Copyright and other public policy issues
associated with the delivery, or provision of
access to, mediated instruction to students who
are separated from their instructor by time
and/or space, including through the use of the
Internet or other digital networks or
technologies. (A,H)
Document Delivery
Technological, legal, economic, administrative
and public policy issues associated with the
provision by libraries and other entities of
services to fulfill requests for the delivery of
copies of research materials and other documents.
(A,H)
Domain Names
Technological, legal, economic, administrative
and public policy issues regarding textual names
that are translated into Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses designating particular servers through
which the domain name holder communicates and may
be contacted online; they are assigned based on
the type of organization or site to be identified
by the name, and are generally differentiated by
the three-letter suffix provided at the end of
the URL.(A,H)
E-Commerce
Public policy issues concerning the buying and
selling of products and services by businesses
and consumers over the Internet, typically
distinguishing among separate categories of
business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer
(B2C), and consumer-to-consumer (C2C)
transactions. (A,H)
Fair Use
Matters concerning an exercise of any exclusive
right of copyright with respect to a copyrighted
work which, despite the absence of permission
from or payment to the copyright owner, is not
considered an infringement of that right under
copyright law, based upon the application of four
statutory criteria through which the use is
evaluated in the context of the particular facts
and circumstances in which it occurs. (A,H)
Government Competition
Public policies or government regulation
concerning circumstances in which government
agencies or personnel make access available to
the public or any segment of the public or
provide any enhanced information products or
services that can substitute for products or
services provided commercially by private sector
entities or persons.
See "Copyright and Public Access
to Federally-
Funded Scientific Research: The Erroneous
Premise of Open-Access Advocates and H.R. 2613"
memo at the Professional/Scholarly
Publishing Division (PSP) website
See also Publisher issues regarding
proposed NIH policy.
(A,H)
Information Technology
Technological and public policy issues arising
in
connection with technologies used to create,
disseminate, store, use, or transform
information, including computers, software,
telecommunications products and services,
Internet and online services, systems
integration, and related professional services.
(A,H)
Interlibrary Loan
The sharing of publications, information
products, or material between libraries as an
integral element in the provision of library
services, where one library requests the
returnable or non-returnable provision of loans
or copies of materials from another library to
fill the informational needs of its users that
cannot be met through its local collection
resources.(A,H)
International
Public policy matters within the scope of the
issues categories involving nations other than
or
in addition to the United States, including
multilateral treaties and agreements.(A,H)
See OFAC memo at the Professional/Scholarly
Publishing Division (PSP) website
Legislation (Pending, Enacted)
Both existing and proposed federal or state
legislation and related Congressional or state
legislative body activities.
See: Thomas: Legislative Information on the
Internet -http://thomas.loc.gov.
(A,H)
See "Copyright and Public Access to
Federally-
Funded Scientific Research: The Erroneous
Premise of Open-Access Advocates and H.R. 2613"
memo at the Professional/Scholarly
Publishing Division (PSP) website
Licensing
Contractual authorizations and/or restrictions
regarding the provision of access to, or use,
distribution, performance, modification, or
reproduction of information or related rights,
including those associated with copyrighted works.
(A,H)
Postal
Postal rates, classifications, services, and
other public policy matters concerning the
delivery of mailed items by the U.S. Postal
Service. (A,H)
Privacy
Technological and public policy matters
concerning governmental, corporate and other
intrusions into the personal affairs of
individuals or the proprietary affairs of non-
government entities, as well as the ability of
individuals to control the collection, content,
disclosure and use of information that is
personally-identifiable to them; also concerns
surveillance, monitoring and other invasive
practices in connection with communications,
information or activities occurring through
telecommunications or other means. (A,H)
Public Domain
Legal and other public policy matters concerning
the sphere of knowledge or information which, by
virtue of its character as being publicly
available and/or lacking in patent, copyright,
or other intellectual property protections or
claim of ownership, is considered to be
unencumbered and 'common' to all, e.g.,
government information.
(H)
Publishing - General
Technological and public policy issues
associated
with enterprises engaged in the authorship or
purposeful
dissemination of content (including software) by
print, electronic or
other means, particularly in connection with
books, journals and other textual materials.
(A,H)
See additional policy papers such as
the OFAC
memo at the Professional/Scholarly
Publishing Division (PSP) website
Sovereign Immunity
Public policy and legal issues arising from the
state's immunity from liabiliy or prosecution
for activities which would otherwise give rise
to a cause of action but for the state's being
engaged in a governmental function. (_, H)
Taxation
Economic and public policy issues associated
with
governmental levies of financial charges in
connection with certain transactions in goods or
services, or with other activities, including
issues concerning sales taxes related to online
or e-commerce, value-added taxes, etc. (A,H)
Technological Safeguards/Circumvention
Technological and public policy issues
concerning
the use of technological measures by copyright
owners and others who hold or are responsible for
administering proprietary rights in content or
information to control access to or use of such
content or information, and matters concerning
the defeat of such measures (such as encryption,
scrambling, etc.), with particular emphasis on
related provisions of the WIPO treaties and the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
("DMCA"). (A,H)
Treaties / International Agreements
Legal and other public policy matters
concerning
existing or proposed agreements between or
among
nations in which the signatory
nations
agree to conform certain types of activities,
conduct or related rules and laws to an
accepted
common set of principles, standards or
arrangements. (A,H)
Welcome
The Public Issues Task Force has continued to
update and improve the PSP Issues Glossary to
connect todays issues facing PSP members and
the environment in which we operate.
The PSP Issues Glossary, a reference guide for
the perplexed, is available to PSP members
through the PSP web site. It contains issues
and buzzwords, and descriptive entries for
organizations and entities that are "players" in
the arena -- those who are important in the
world of professional and scholarly
publishing.
2005 and 2006 have been particularly
active, with open access and government
regulation
issues commanding our attention, particularly
the how the NIH policy and proposed Federal
research access legislation issues affect
scientific and government information
publishing. The Glossary database is by
searchable by Issue categories, (copyright,
distance education, archiving) and/or by subject
or Entity categories, (libraries, associations,
legislation). A search specifying "libraries"
and "copyright", for example, would turn up
descriptive entries for all library
organizations that have been actively involved
in the public debate on copyright. A simpler
search based simply on "WIPO" would provide a
description of the treaty. Each entry also
contains links to organizational home pages, for
further reference.
Where helpful, PITF has revised glossary
terms reflecting current issue areas and added
links directly to closely related websites. As
designed, the Glossary is continuing to evolve
and grow. PITF invites PSP members to suggest
new entries or changes to existing ones. The
Glossary is a valuable reference guide to the
issues and the players in this confusing arena
of public policy.
