But several recent legal and technological developments threaten to cast a pall over this progress, by eroding the incentives for the continued investment needed to maintain and build upon the U.S. lead in world markets for electronic information resources.
Concerns about legal and technological threats to information resources.
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U.S. firms have been the world leaders in this field. They have brought to market a wide range of valuable collections of information that meet the information needs of businesses, professionals, researchers, and consumers worldwide.
Developing, compiling, distributing, and maintaining commercially significant collections requires substantial investments of time, personnel, and money.
Electronic collections, and other collections of factual material, are absolutely indispensable to the American economy on the verge of the new century.
I promise once again to listen to every constructive suggestion, and use every effort to craft a solution which bridges the producer and user communities.
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