AAU and APLU Commitment to Ensuring Global Access to Medical Advances

Gregory A Jackson, Vice President (direct) +1-202-331-5351 (mobile) +1-773-936-9235 gjackson@educause.edu 1150 18th Street NW, Suite 900 Washington DC 20036 +1-202-872-4200 (main) www.educause.edu 13 December 2011 Chairman Lamar Smith House Committee on the Judiciary 2138 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C.

Leslie J. Winner, Vice President and General Counsel, The University of North Carolina,Testimony on behalf of the Association of American Universities, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and American Council on Education before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, June 17, 2003

This document provides member institutions with a framework that may help in formulating these policies. We suggest both general principles that might guide the construction of these policies and specific elements that we believe might be usefully incorporated into the policies. We are not attempting to be prescriptive. Given the various histories and organizational complexities of member institutions, we do not believe that the AAU should adopt a single policy. This is neither desirable nor feasible. Rather, the principles and policy elements that are set forth below are intended to be used as guidelines for member institutions when they turn to drafting their own policies, within their local cultures, with their local histories..