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Electronic era spawns copyright
quandaries
As director of the
Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and president of the Association of
Research Libraries, Jim Neal is active in the national arena in
the areas of copyright law and scholarly publishing.
Last month, he testified on behalf of five American library
associations before a congressional subcommittee studying the
Collections of Information Antipiracy Act. This proposed
legislation seeks to expand protection of databases, particularly
in the digital environment. Though its supporters have called the
bill "a complement to copyright," Neal addressed the absence of
documented need for such new protection, the overall inadequacies
of the legislation and the availability of existing laws to
protect such works.
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Career planning gets students on
track
Ready to graduate and make your fortune among the employed?
Well, better start soon and work hard, says Nimesh Shah '97, who
knows from experience. "If you're spending less time looking for
a job than your pre-med friends are putting into getting into
medical school," he says, "you're going to be far behind in
finding work."
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