Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter No. A news and information digest for those working to preserve and provide access to cultural heritage resources through networked digital technology. You are welcome to distribute it freely, with due acknowledgments. Of three copyright treaties considered by WIPO, a controversial database treaty was rejected, while the other two passed, with some language changes. Library and education delegates had mixed feelings about the results while still strongly objecting to the U.S. Government's strategy of bringing digital copyright issues before a world body before domestic consensus on these issues has been reached.
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A recent conference examined possible routes for developing a scheme to successfully encode medieval manuscripts. The Winners of the 1996 NII Awards can be seen at the Awards Web Site. Next year's awards will be global in scope. Oxford, September 14-17. This had an extremely loose and broad definition of what a database was and was seen by many as a potential major obstacle to future free access to public domain material.