PUBLIC INTEREST TASK FORCE

DECEMBER 12 MEETING NOTES

A. KEY CONCEPTS

1. BALANCE: rights of owners and users of copyright material

2. ACCESS

1. that it be open and broad
2. that it be a way of ensuring that materials would be available
3. that it be seen as access to experience
4. that it should encourage partnerships between those who create
5. that it enable us all to prepare and use information

3. Protection of robust public domain

4. Multiple roles: that we are all, increasingly, creators and users

5. Preservation and the need for migration of material to electronic contemporary formats

6. Characteristics of Fair Use

• news reporting
• citation
• criticism

7. Importance to culture of networked cultural heritage

• our raison d'etre
• lack of it a major social threat

8. Standards to protect authenticity of documents access via digital means

9. Cultural stewardship

• attribution to originals
• integrity
• moral rights

10. RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES: a balance between these two is vital.

11. Respect for property (but many felt we should move beyond the concept of property, perhaps to notions of value).

B. TOWARDS VALUES

Form principles around the creative act-as expressed in the Constitution (how long should people profit)

We believe in limited sharing

• public v private space; the personal sphere
• use of content without further intrusion
• digital tech effaces distinctions

Privacy

We believe that digital networked technology is a new encompassing phenomenon...

Therefore equitable policymaking requires as broadly representative a cross-section of society as possible

We seek an environment where acts of creation are invited and welcomed/rewarded (equitable)(fair) (realistic) frameworks for commerce, use and re-use of inty4ellectual property.

TASK FORCE

OUTLINE

1. Define target audience
2. Define Vision

• a) establish core values
• b) key definitions
• c) goals

1. Convey messages
2. Strategies
3. Measures of Success
4. Timeline/Responsibilities
5. Resources

DEFINITIONS

1. equitable accessible networked cultural heritage
2. cultural "right of way"
3. digital cultural heritage is an integral vital component of a networked infrastructure
4. everyone on-line
5. "You" are the the cultural heritage; you helped build it, you own it, don't let anyone take it away.

GOALS

I **Short-Term: most pressing

A Specific pending legislation

B Educate and excite individual constituencies--about the crisis and our vision

C Raise awareness of NINCH and its values

D Articulation of what will be lost and what is to be gained: freedom, rights, fundamental forum for democracy

Still under construction...

Lifeline...

Democracy...

Highway-tollway

Blueprints

Connection, communities

New ground, new ideas

Let it grow...

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