...Bruce Massis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the two basic skills necessary for today’s librarian to be successful in a library environment where technology and copyright are evolving and thus changing the manner by which a transition from print resources to digital can...

... property belonging to others could not last long. The music industry brought in its heavy legal artillery and placed a bull’s‐eye squarely on Napster. Companies on the edge of copyright legality have felt safe since 1984, when the Supreme Court in the USA ruled that people could record television...

... results. The topics covered are: Computer Misuse; Contracts; Copyright; Court Procedures; Data Protection; Freedom of Information; Libel and Defamation; Official Secrets; Patents; and Human Rights. The project results appear to validate the assumptions underlying the University of Brighton’s provision...

... agreement. Both parties seem satisfied with the outcome (UUK, CLA). Yet difficulties remain. It states “that just as licences did not solve the difficulties arising from the 1988 Copyright Act, clearing houses have not proven a panacea …” (p. 2). There is still a multiplicity of licences involved...

...Don Revill Sally   Maynard , J.   Eric Davies . The Cost of Copyright Compliance in Further and Higher Education Institutions . Loughborough University : Library & Information Statistics Unit (LISU) Department of Information Science   July 2001 . 32 pp , ISBN: 1‐901786...

...Judy Watkins Wall avoids technical jargon making the language easy understand for the lay person. What can be an obstacle at times is the sheer volume of words, although in fairness unambiguous copyright advice is not easy to deliver in a few clear and concise sentences. The relevant sections...

... marketplace is one where individuals are more and more likely to have to take personal responsibility for what happens, good or bad. Information services Electronic data interchange Liability Copyright Intellectual property The inevitable effect of commercialising services is to emphasise...

... Resources management Copyright Books Few subjects continually provoke as much heated discussion as the Internet. In one area after another, the Internet has been alternatively hailed and decried in hyperbolic terms, echoed by the performance of high‐technology shares on US stock markets. For all...

... purely circumstantial and adventitious …) behaves like many of us. When we need, we take. When we own, we protect. Checking takes time, may cost, why bother? The photograph from the magazine was copyright ‐ his act is infringement. His photocopying from sheet music is infringement, too, not only...

...Elaine Ansell Archives Copyright This is the fully revised second edition of Graham Cornish’s useful book on copyright, in paperback and slightly larger, easier to read, format. The stated aim of the book is to “explain the provisions of the UK Copyright Act and supporting legislation...

... that if libraries organized and effectively met the larger issues of true networks, better ease‐of‐use, coordinated digitization projects, authenticated Web resources, international copyright laws, updated teaching programs for librarians and better standards definition they would better position themselves...