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National Research Council, The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium (2003) (full-text).
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This is a report of a National Research Council symposium, reviews the legal, technical and policy challenges in establishing an effective balance between the benefits of open access and the need for proper protection of intellectual property rights.
This symposium brought together leading experts and managers from the public and private sectors who are involved in the creation, dissemination, and use of scientific and technical data and information (STI) to: (1) describe and discuss the role and the benefits and costs — both economic and other — of the public domain in STI in the research and education context, (2) to identify and analyze the legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in STI in research and education, (3) describe and discuss existing and proposed approaches to preserving the public domain in STI in the United States, and (4) identify issues that may require further analysis.