Step 2:  Scope it Out (examples)

brief annotated bibliography

Digital Future Coalition.  Digital Future Coalition.  7 Sep. 2001 <http://www.dfc.org/>
   "The Digital Future Coalition (DFC) is committed to striking an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it. The DFC is the result of a unique collaboration of many of the nation's leading non-profit educational, scholarly, library, and consumer groups, together with major commercial trade associations representing leaders in the consumer electronics, telecommunications, computer, and network access industries."--About the DFC. [Web site of policy organization]

Harmon, Amy. "New visibility for 1998 copyright protection law, with online enthusiasts confused and frustrated." New York Times.  13 Aug. 2001.
   Programmer Dmitri Sklyarov arrested by Justice Dept. after accusations from Adobe that his software violates the DMCA. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 makes it a crime for users to bypass encryption technology. Congress is concerned that end users' right of access to products they have paid for may be impeded by software developer/publisher encryption technologies. [Article available in Averett Library New York Times microfilm, and for a fee, from nytimes.com.

Harper, Christopher. And that's the way it will be : news and information in a digital world. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
  [Available in Averett Library circulating collection: PN4784.E5 H36 1998]

Jost, Kenneth. "Copyright and the Internet." CQ Researcher 29 Sep. 2000. Averett University Lib., Danville, VA. 7 Sep. 2001 <http://www.averett.edu/library/databases.html>
   Recording industry vs. Napster; movie/film studios vs. computer and consumer groups promoting new access technologies. Presents opposing views; includes author affiliation, biography and a bibliography of other sources.  [The CQ Researcher database has 7 review articles on "digital copyright."]

Lam, Calvin K.M., C.Y. Tan. "The Internet is Changing the Music Industry." Communications of the ACM 44.8 (Aug. 2001): 62. Averett University Lib., Danville, VA. 7 Sep. 2001 <http://www.averett.edu/library/databases.html>
   Discusses effects of online distribution channels on the music industry. [Citation found in Expanded Academic ASAP("digital copyright" = 101 refereed articles). Text available in Expanded Academic ASAP and ACM Digital Library.]

National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure. The digital dilemma intellectual property in the information age. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
   [Available as an electronic book in the Averett Library Catalog ]

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Topic summary
Digital or Internet copyright is covered in many specific aspects in the periodical literature, including music/recording industry, film video industry, software industry, and journalism. An important factor is the perspective of developers, artists, and consumers who believe that consumer rights to fair use are threatened by recent interpretations of copyright law, and especially by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

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