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APPENDIX B
Workshop Agenda and Participants

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Thursday, January 14

8:00 am

Continental breakfast

8:30

A. Introductory remarks

 

Robert Serafin, Study Chair

8:45

Keynote Address

 

Q. Todd Dickinson

 

Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (Acting), Department of Commerce

 

B. Summary of S&T databases to be discussed at the workshop

9:00

Geographic Data Panel

 

Moderator: Harlan Onsrud, Associate Professor, University of Maine

Government-sector data activity: Barbara Ryan, Associate Director for Operations, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Not-for-profit sector data activity: James Brunt, Associate Director for Information Management, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico1

Commercial-sector data activity: Barry Glick, former President and CEO, GeoSystems Global Corp.

9:45

Genomic Data Panel

 

Moderator: Philip Loftus, Vice President and Director, Glaxo Wellcome

Government-sector data activity: James Ostell, Chief, Information Engineering Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Not-for-profit-sector data activity: Chris Overton, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

Commercial-sector data activity: Myra Williams, President and CEO, Molecular Applications Group

10:30 

Break

10:45

Chemical and Chemical Engineering Data Panel

 

Moderator: Roberta Saxon, Patent Agent, Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, et al.

Government-sector data activity: Richard Kayser, Chief, Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce

Not-for-profit-sector data activity: James Lohr, Director, Information Industry Relations, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society

Commercial-sector data activity: Leslie Singer, President, ISI, Inc.

11:30

Meteorological Data Panel

 

Moderator: Robert Serafin, Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Government-sector data activity: Ken Hadeen, Director (retired), National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Not-for-profit-sector data activity: David Fulker, Director, Unidata Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

1 Dr. Brunt was unable to attend the workshop due to illness.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Commercial-sector data activity: Robert Brammer, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, TASC

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:15

C. Economic factors in production/dissemination/use of S&T databases in the public and private-sectors

 

Moderator:

Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor, UC Berkeley

 

Speaker:

Richard Gilbert, Professor, UC Berkeley

2:15

D. Overview of technologies for protecting and misappropriating digital IPR: the current situation and future prospects

 

Moderator:

Mark Stefik, Principal Scientist, Xerox PARC

 

Speaker:

Teresa Lunt, Principal Scientist, Xerox PARC (by video)

2:45

Break

3:00

E.1 Summary overview of existing and proposed IPR regimes for databases

The status quo

Sui generis property rights model

Unfair competition/misappropriation model

 

Moderator:

Harvey Perlman, Professor, College of Law, University of Nebraska

 

Speaker:

Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress

3:45

E.2 Summary of federal government information law and data policies

 

Speaker:

Justin Hughes, Attorney, Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce

4:00

F. Breakout sessions on the existing legal and technical situation

4:15

Individual breakout sessions

 

1) Government-sector data panel

 

Moderator:

Shelton Alexander, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

 

Rapporteur:

Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor, UC Berkeley

 

Panelists:

Barbara Ryan, Associate Director of Operations, U.S. Geological Survey

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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James Ostell, Chief, Information Engineering Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM/NIH

Richard Kayser, Chief, Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Kenneth Hadeen, Director (retired), National Climatic Data Center

 

2) Not-for-profit-sector data panel

 

Moderator:

Maureen Kelly, Vice President for Planning, BIOSIS

 

Rapporteur:

Jerome Reichman, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law

 

Panelists:

James Brunt, Associate Director for Information Management, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico2

Chris Overton, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

James Lohr, Director, Information Industry Relations, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society

David Fulker, Director, Unidata Program, UCAR

 

3) Commercial-sector data panel

 

Moderator:

Robert Serafin, Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research

 

Rapporteur:

Mark Stefik, Principal Scientist, Xerox PARC

 

Panelists:

Barry Glick, former President and CEO, GeoSystems Global Corp.

Myra Williams, President and CEO, Molecular Applications Group

Leslie Singer, President, ISI, Inc.

Robert Brammer, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, TASC

5:45

Adjourn

5:45-

 

 

6:45 pm

Reception

2 Dr. Brunt was unable to attend the workshop due to illness.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Friday, January 15

8:00 am

Continental breakfast

8:30

G. Summary reports by rapporteurs from previous day's breakouts

9:20

H. Instructions by workshop chair and move to breakout rooms

9:30

I. Breakout sessions

 

Session 1: Congress decides to enact a strong property rights model protecting databases

 

Moderator:

Paul Uhlir, Study Director, National Research Council

 

Rapporteur:

Peter Leavitt, Consultant

 

Panelists:

Ken Hadeen, Director (retired), National Climatic Data Center

David Fulker, Director, Unidata Program, UCAR

Robert Brammer, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, TASC

Jon Baumgarten, Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

Peter Jaszi, Professor, American University School of Law

James Neal, Director, Johns Hopkins University Library

Ferris Webster, Professor, University of Delaware

 

Session 2: Congress decides to enact an unfair competition model protecting databases

 

Moderator:

Harvey Perlman, Professor, College of Law, University of Nebraska

 

Rapporteur:

Philip Loftus, Vice President and Director, Glaxo Wellcome

 

Panelists:

Dennis Benson, Chief Information Resources Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM/NIH

Chris Overton, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

Myra Williams, President and CEO, Molecular Applications Group

Michael Klipper, Attorney, Meyer & Klipper, PLLC

Jonathan Band, Attorney, Morrison & Foerster, LLP

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Thomas Rindfleisch, Director, Medical Library, Stanford University

 

Session 3: Promoting access to and use of government S&T data for the public interest—an assessment of legal and policy options

 

Moderator:

Harlan Onsrud, Associate Professor, University of Maine

 

Rapporteur:

Shelton Alexander, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

 

Panelists:

Barbara Ryan, Associate Director for Operations, U.S. Geological Survey3

James Brunt, Associate Director for Information Management, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico4

Barry Glick, former President and CEO, GeoSystems Global Corp.

Peter Weiss, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget 5

Prue Adler, Assistant Executive Director, Federal Relations and Information Policy, Association of Research Libraries

Eric Massant, Director of Government and Industry Affairs, Reed Elsevier, Inc.

Tim Foresman, Director, Spatial Analysis Lab, University of Maryland

Kenneth Frazier, Director, University of Wisconsin Libraries

 

Session 4: Promoting access to and use of not-for-profit-sector S&T data for the public interest—an assessment of legal and policy options

 

Moderator:

Martha Williams, Professor and Director, Information Retrieval Research Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Rapporteur:

Roberta Saxon, Patent Agent, Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson et al.

 

Panelists:

Richard Kayser, Chief, Physical and Chemical Properties Division, NIST

3 Ms. Ryan was unable to attend this session due to inclement weather.

4 Dr. Brunt was unable to attend the workshop due to illness.

5 Mr. Weiss was unable to attend this session due to inclement weather.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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James Lohr, Director, Information Industry Relations, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society

Leslie Singer, President, ISI, Inc.

Allan Adler, Vice President for Governmental and Legislative Affairs, Association of American Publishers, Inc.6

Jerome Reichman, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law

R. Stephen Berry, Professor, University of Chicago

10:45

Break

 

11:00

Breakout session discussions (continued)

12:45 pm

Lunch

1:45

J. Rapporteurs' summary of breakout panel results

2:45

Discussion of results with workshop participants

3:45

K. Concluding remarks

 

Robert Serafin, Chair

4:00 pm

End of public workshop

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Allan Adler, Association of American Publishers, Inc.

Prue Adler, Association of Research Libraries

Shelton Alexander, Pennsylvania State University

Dave Applegate (affiliation unknown)

Christopher Ashley, National Science Foundation

Mary Baish, American Association of Law

Jonathan Band, Morrison & Foerster, LLP

Winona Barker, National Biomedical Research Foundation

Ed Barron, Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Barbara Bauldock, U.S. Geological Survey

Jon Baumgarten, Proskauer Rose, LLP

6  

Mr. Adler was unable to attend this session due to inclement weather.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Dennis Benson, National Library of Medicine

R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago

Robert Brammer, TASC

Lisa Brooks, National Institutes of Health

Francis Buckley, Jr., U.S. Government Printing Office

Mark Burnham, California Institute of Technology

Bonnie Carroll, Information International Associates, Inc.

William Cohen, Federal Trade Commission

Kathy Covert, Federal Geographic Data Committee

Karen Dacres, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Judge Edward Damich, U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Matthew Davis (affiliation unknown)

Deveny Deck, Vanderbilt University

Paul DeGiusti, Information Industry Association

Q. Todd Dickinson, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Anita Eisenstadt, National Science Foundation

Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association

Julie Esanu, National Research Council

Bob Etkins, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Eric Fischer, Library of Congress

Peter Folger, American Geophysical Union

Tim Foresman, University of Maryland

Mark Frankel, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Kenneth Frazier, University of Wisconsin Libraries

David Fulker, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Carole Ganz-Brown, National Science Foundation

Richard Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley

Paul Gilman, Celera Genomics, Inc.

Barry Glick, Consultant

Kenneth Hadeen, National Climatic Data Center (retired)

Kelley Heilman, Maryland State Department of Health

Stephen Heinig, Association of American Medical Colleges

Stephen Heller, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mike Hoffman (affiliation unknown)

Justin Hughes, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Peter Jaszi, American University School of Law

Brian Kahin, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Richard Kayser, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Chris Kelly, U.S. Department of Justice

Maureen Kelly, BIOSIS

Michael Keplinger, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Ehsan Khan, U.S. Department of Energy

Michael Klipper, Meyer & Klipper, PLLC

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Makoto Kono, Fujitsu, Ltd.

Stephen Koslow, National Institute of Mental Health

Patrice Laget, Delegation of the European Commission

Richard Lambert, National Institutes of Health

Charles Larson, Industrial Research Institute, Inc.

Peter Leavitt, Consultant

Robert Ledley, Georgetown University

Lynn Levine, Warren Publishing

David Lide, Consultant

Anne Linn, National Research Council

Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information

Philip Loftus, Glaxo Wellcome

James Lohr, Chemical Abstracts Service

Joe Martinez, U.S. Department of Energy

Eric Massant, Reed Elsevier, Inc.

Stephen Maurer, Attorney

Gilles McDougall, Industry Canada

Bruce McDowell, National Academy of Public Administration

Shelia McGarr (affiliation unknown)

Theodore Miles, National Science Foundation

John Moeller, U.S. Geological Survey

Christopher Mohr, Meyer & Klipper, PLLC

Kurt Molholm, Defense Technical Information Center

James Neal, Johns Hopkins University Library

Judge Pauline Newman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Goetz Oertel, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine

James Ostell, National Institutes of Health

G. Christian Overton, University of Pennsylvania

Bob Palmer, U.S. House of Representatives

Harvey Perlman, University of Nebraska

Shira Perimutter, U.S. Copyright Office

Marybeth Peters, U.S. Copyright Office

Larry Pettinger, U.S. Geological Survey

Tony Reichardt, Nature

Jerome Reichman, Vanderbilt University School of Law

Thomas Rindfleisch, Stanford University

Hedy Rossmeissl, U.S. Geological Survey

John Rumble, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Barbara Ryan, U.S. Geological Survey

Carolina Saez, U.S. Copyright Office

Roberta Saxon, Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel, LLP

Terri Scanlan, National Research Council

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Jean Schiro-Zavela, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Harold Schoolman, National Library of Medicine

Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California, Berkeley

Robert Serafin, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Leslie Singer, Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.

Mark Smith, American Association of University Professors

Mark Stefik, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Charles Sturrock, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Ambassador James Sweeney, Consultant

Margaret Thomson, U.S. Department of Energy

Paul Uhlir, National Research Council

John Vaughn, Association of American Universities

Ferris Webster, University of Delaware

Peter Weiss, Office of Management and Budget

Pamela Whitney, National Research Council

Martha Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Myra Williams, Molecular Applications Group

James Wilson, House Committee on Science

Richard Witmer, U.S. Geological Survey

Barbara Wright, National Research Council

Susan Zevin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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New legal approaches, such as the European Union's 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state level, are threatening to compromise public access to scientific and technical data available through computerized databases. Lawmakers are struggling to strike an appropriate balance between the rights of database rights holders, who are concerned about possible commercial misappropriation of their products, and public-interest users of the data such as researchers, educators, and libraries.

A Question of Balance examines this balancing act. The committee concludes that because database rights holders already enjoy significant legal, technical, and market-based protections, the need for statutory protection has not been sufficiently substantiated. Nevertheless, although the committee opposes the creation of any strong new protective measures, it recognizes that some additional limits against wholesale misappropriation of databases may be necessary. In particular, a new, properly scoped and focused U.S. statute might provide a reasonable alternative to the European Union's highly protectionistic database directive. Such legislation could then serve as a legal model for an international treaty in this area. The book recommends a number of guiding principles for such possible legislation, as well as related policy actions for the administration.

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