Friends:

MAP recently received a number of "cease and desist" demands from various newspapers and chains complaining about the inclusion of their articles in the MAP news library. As a result we were temporarily forced to excerpt articles for 81 newspapers.

We are asking all those who use the MAP archive and services to inform us on the effect this excerpting has had (or would have if it was expanded further) on your ability to meet your mission and objectives. Are you less likely or less able to write an effective LTE for excerpted articles? Does it impact your research capabilities? Does it undermine the efforts and capabilities of local groups where the local newspapers have been excerpted? Are there other reasons excerpted articles hamper your efforts or that of others? Your reply will help MAP and its lawyers gain precedent setting legal protection for on line libraries like the MAP archive, which we feel is crucial to the drug policy reform effort.

Please don't procrastinate. Send your views as soon as possible.

Please send your views on this important matter to Mark Greer mgreer@mapinc.org.

My sincere thanks for your help on this matter.

Mark Greer

Executive Director
DrugSense
mgreer@mapinc.org

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