A National Research Council report emphasizes that innovative technology and business practices, applied in conjunction with existing copyright laws, are likely to be far more effective in protecting electronic information than sweeping legislative change would be.

Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure, National Research Council. 1999. The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. (Available at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9601.html.)

Additional information about the National Academy of Sciences’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and its committee reports is available at http://www4.nationalacademies.org/cpsma/cstbweb.nsf.

Randall Davis
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139-5879
Web site: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/davis/davis.htm

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 22, November 27, 1999, p. 351. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.