Innovation & intellectual property · 08/03/1995

National Information Infrastructure (NII) Copyright Awareness Campaign

The Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) issued a preliminary draft of its report, ``Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure,'' on July 7, 1994. One of the Working Group's findings announced in the preliminary draft is that effective education of the public about intellectual property rights is crucial to the successful development of the NII. The Working Group recognizes that the public's awareness of their own intellectual property rights, as well as those of others, will lead to increased respect for those rights. In order to effectuate public awareness of copyright, the preliminary draft, on page 140, stated that the [[Page 12745]] Working Group would sponsor a conference to develop curricula that may be used in schools and libraries to educate the public about intellectual property rights in the NII environment. The draft further stated that anyone who wished to participate in the conference should request to do so by sending a request to Terri A. Southwick by July 25, 1994. The participants have been chosen and notified. Every effort was made to ensure that a wide diversity of i