PUBLIC POLICY Stay Informed; Participate in Public Policy Discussion In our last column we introduced the course and panel proposals we submitted to SIGGRAPH 2002. The Introductory and Intellectual Property/Digital Rights Management courses have been accepted and an update is included here. At the SIGGRAPH 200f Public Policy BOF meeting, Mark Banas volunteered to set up an email list. This has been done and is available; instructions on how to get onto it are in this column. We are looking for a volunteer to implement a mechanism for making available pointers to articles on policy of interest to computer graphics professionals. We are also looking for a graphic arts volunteer. We have discussed the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) before. Cem Kaner participated in the December meeting of the UCITA drafting committee and his report is included here. Also an American Bar Association worki:ng group recently issued a report on their study of UCITA; we provide a link to it and a recent article about the report. Many readers of Computer Graphics are at academic institutions. What intellectual property issues arise there? Cem Kaner from FloridaTech describes the emerging policy there which governs the rights of faculty
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