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Schroeder-Neal Copyright Debate Kicks Off ACRL Detroit ConferenceLibraries spend $2 billion a year making information available to users, said James Neal of Johns Hopkins University, contradicting Association of American Publishers CEO Patricia Schroeder, who asserted that “no one’s going to pay for anything ever again” unless copyright “fair use” is redefined to protect authors in cyberspace. Their lively debate kicked off the ninth national conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries in Detroit April 8–11. The American Library Association division reported a healthy advance registration of 1,850, with 400 first-time attendees, 45 of whom attended on scholarships from sponsoring companies. Following the copyright debate, a panel moderated by Patricia Senn Breivik of Wayne State University discussed “Student Learning in an Information Age.” WSU president Irvin Reid welcomed attendees to Detroit and to an examination of “information technology that was unimaginable just a few years ago.” Scheduled to close the conference was University of Arizona biologist Michael Rosenzweig, speaking on the cost crisis in scholarly-journal publishing. Posted April 12, 1999. |
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