Re: DRM at SAE Publication Board meeting

Jim, What's the right solution to the prohibition to
transmit 
electronically "any portion of the Licensed
Products"?  I'm not 
sure I see your point.

Joe Esposito

On 4/27/07, Jim Stemper <stemp003tc.umn.edu> wrote:

> It's great that SAE appears to be listening to the
concerns of 
> faculty and librarians, but I don't think we're out of
the 
> woods just yet... The revised license I've seen still
says that 
> we cannot "transmit electronically, via e-mail or
any other 
> file transfer protocols, any portion of the Licensed
Products." 
> They may "technically" remove the DRM
restriction, but doesn't 
> this wording really retain the same *legal* prohibition
on the 
> practice of "scholarly sharing," i.e.
emailing tech reports to 
> colleagues in a work group? The revised license also
retains 
> the recent prohibition on walk-in users, revoking a
right 
> commonly granted to land-grant universities in earlier

> iterations of the license. Another big concern is that
the "pay 
> $X per download" pricing model remains -- in the
absence of 
> usage statistics from SAE, it's much too easy to run
out of 
> downloads in the middle of a budget year. Is no one
else 
> pushing back on this stuff? Sounds like this one needs
a little 
> more time in the oven.
>
> Jim Stemper Electronic Resources 
> Librarian University of Minnesota-Twin Cities