How to Protect Copyright Is Key Topic at Publishers' Meeting - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Only the first paragraph of the article is OA. Excerpt from the full text: "Legislation is not the way to fight online piracy —at least not right now. That was the message broadcast at the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers, held here on Wednesday. But the publishing executives who gathered at the McGraw-Hill headquarters in midtown Manhattan also heard that the need to protect copyright is as critical as ever, and that one challenge is to overcome the "disinformation" spread by reformers who want to loosen or do away with copyright restrictions....The recent tabling of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act was fresh in people's minds....The bills, known as SOPA and PIPA, "blew up on us after months of detailed work," said Tom Allen, the president of the publishers' association, which had supported the legislation. "We've learned a few lessons along the way." But Mr. Allen also noted a "worrisome" trend toward giving away research. (He did not refer by name to the proposed Federal Research Public Access Act, which would require that the published results of federally supported research be made publicly available no later than six months after publication.)...After "the digital tsunami" of opposition that brought down SOPA and PIPA, [Cary Sherman, the chairman and chief executive officer of the Recording Industry Association of America] said, it's hard now to imagine "just moving to legislation without first building consensus." ..."