CENDI Interest Areas — Copyright and Intellectual Property
Under this task, CENDI has developed a Frequently Asked Questions document to educate agency staff, including librarians, publications staff, and researchers, in issues related to copyright and intellectual property. This is maintained by CENDI's Copyright and Intellectual Property Working Group. As copyright laws change, the publication is updated to reflect those changes. In addition, as new copyright questions and answers are provided by the agencies, these are also added to the publication. Key issues range from public domain information in commercial journals to copyrighted information in government publications.
In March 2004, CENDI held a workshop on Metadata for Digital Rights Management (agenda and presentations). The workshop was designed to raise awareness that government information must be clearly marked in terms of government use and public use rights. Metadata schemes under development will need to consider how to reflect rights management for digital objects and how these should be expressed on agency web sites.
In March 2003, members of the Working Group gave presentations at the Library of Congress/ Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) General Counsels Forum.
