] This Friday, Professor Turow and other experts will meet
] at a conference sponsored by the Annenberg School to
] debate how digital media fits into the concept of "fair
] use" - a murky safe harbor in copyright law that allows
] scholars and researchers limited use of protected
] materials for educational or commentary purposes.
]
] The conference title itself is a lament: "Knowledge Held
] Hostage: Scholarly Versus Corporate Rights in the Digital
] Age." Many scholars, librarians and legal experts see
] rich promise for the use of multimedia materials in
] research and education. But the possibility of litigation
] over file-sharing and confusion over digital copyright
] protections have scholars feeling threatened about
] venturing beyond the more familiar world of printed
] texts, Professor Turow said.