3.3: Legal Issues
Monitor major legal developments related to standardization. Other Information:
Strategies: 3.3.1 Communicate, in timely manner, recent legal developments related to (a) negligence/tort liability, (b) copyright
issues, (c) general antitrust issues and (d) issues relating to the inclusion of proprietary intellectual property in standards
to the ANSI SDO Legal Issues Forum. 3.3.2 Support the Copyright Ad Hoc Group, a standing committee of the new Intellectual
Property Rights Committee, in its effort to delineate and to review issues relating to the assertion of copyright in standards
and to develop relevant strategic recommendations (a) to assist standards bodies and participants in arriving at a common
understanding of these issues and addressing them in a constructive manner, (b) to formulate ANSI's actions and policy positions
vis-à-vis the government and (c) to provide guidance to the relevant ANSI governance bodies. 3.3.3 Monitor cases and actions
of Copyright Office, and continue to educate Congressional staff on importance of copyright protection for standards referenced
into law. 3.3.4 Implement remaining recommendations of Legal Issue Ad Hoc related to liability and copyright issues.
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