[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (13)
Subject: ACM Congressional Briefing March 5
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (115)
Subject: ADAM EISGRAU MOVES ON
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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:23:29 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: ACM Congressional Briefing March 5
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
March 3, 1999
ACM TO BRIEF CONGRESS ON COMPUTER POLICY ISSUES
Fri March 5, 1-3:30pm: 2318 Rayburn Office Bldg
Independence Ave & S. Capitol St., SW
<http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/science-briefing-399.html>
The Association for Computing Machinery is holding a Congressional policy
briefing this Friday that will include a number of issues important to this
community, such as intellectual property, privacy, security and computer
science research. I encourage all to attend and for us to think of this as
a model for presenting our own more specific issues.
David Green
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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:24:21 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: ADAM EISGRAU MOVES ON
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
March 1999
ADAM EISGRAU MOVES ON
I should like to recognize the departure of Adam Eisgrau legal counsel for
the American Library Association's Washington Office. The release below
from the ALA Washington Office details Adam's achievements and prowess. I
simply would like to add that he has had a galvanizing effect on many of us
cast into the difficult seas of copyright development. He has been one of
the staunchest defenders of Fair Use and its future in the digital
environment and will be sorely missed all around.
For those who might not read the whole of this release, let me quote from
the Feb. 3 report of the ALA's Committee on Legislation to the ALA Council,
in which it praised Adam's work:
"He has effectively represented ALA on a broad range of national and
international copyright and intellectual property issues, bringing ALA's
goals in this arena to policy tables and media and public attention. He
has successfully communicated to a wide audience the importance of fair use
of copyrighted materials in a digital environment. The Committee on
Legislation commends and thanks Adam Eisgrau for his commitment to the free
exchange of ideas and extends best wishes to him in all future endeavors."
Good luck, Adam, in your new future.
David Green
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ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 8, Number 20
March 3, 1999
In this issue:
ALA Washington Office Legal Counsel Adam Eisgrau Resigns
Adam Eisgrau, legal counsel for the ALA Washington Office, has
announced his resignation effective Friday, March 5. He will move
on to a position as director of federal relations and public
policy with Handgun Control, Inc., an organization chaired by
Sarah and Jim Brady.
In the less than four years he was with the ALA Washington Office,
Eisgrau compiled a list of impressive accomplishments. He
significantly contributed to the increased public profile among
policy makers and media organizations of libraries and librarians
as advocates for the public interest in continued access to
information in the digital age. He was instrumental in the
formation, organization and effective advocacy of the Digital
Future Coalition (DFC), currently the nation's only public/private
sector alliance working for balanced copyright law and policy.
Eisgrau pioneered ALA's involvement in international intellectual
property policy formulation as a resource for international
library organizations and as an official non-governmental
organization delegate to the World Intellectual Property
Organization Diplomatic Conference of 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland.
He also spearheaded the strategic development, introduction,
modification or deferral of major intellectual property
legislation in keeping with the underlying principle of balance
between needs of copyright owners and information users, including
the: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Era Copyright
Enhancement Act, Digital Copyright Clarification and Technology
Education Act, Copyright Term Extension Act; No Electronic Theft
Act; Collections of Information Antipiracy Act, and Omnibus Patent
Act.
He fostered the effectiveness and cohesiveness of the Shared Legal
Capability (SLC), a collaborative effort among the nation's five
major library organizations to fight for balanced intellectual
property law and policy. Finally, Eisgrau ably represented the
ALA, DFC and the SLC before Congress and the Executive Branch, and
in other policy negotiations and fora, including the Conference on
Fair Use and Uniform Commercial Code revision process.
The ALA Committee on Legislation, at the suggestion of
Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chair Tom Sloan, included words
of praise for Adam in the report prepared for ALA Council on
February 3. That portion of the report read as follows:
"The Committee also heard at this conference that Adam Eisgrau,
Legislative Counsel for the ALA Washington Office since 1995, will
be leaving ALA in early March. The Committee wishes to recognize
Adam's exceptional work. He has effectively represented ALA on a
broad range of national and international copyright and
intellectual property issues, bringing ALA's goals in this arena
to policy tables and media and public attention. He has
successfully communicated to a wide audience the importance of
fair use of copyrighted materials in a digital environment. The
Committee on Legislation commends and thanks Adam Eisgrau for his
commitment to the free exchange of ideas and extends best wishes
to him in all future endeavors."
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