... and other forms of off‐line storage are not used because they make automated integrity checking for “bit rot” or other problems impossible. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Archives Copyright law Germany Information technology Germany has begun a process to look at options...

..., librarians, and practitioners in the library and information field. The suggestions can help modify the copyright laws and the policies as further step. Although exclusive copyright is enhanced under the current juristic protection, the public is still left a certain space to exercise the legal rights...

... the disadvantages of the current Robots.txt and Robots Meta tags and proposes new a comprehensive amendment based on this new function. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Systems software Tagging Copyright law Search engines The dramatic increase in web sites, to around 172,338,726...

... --> Internet Search engines Copyright law Electronic journals Electronic books Digital libraries Google, one of the most popular and widely used internet search engines, has embarked on an ambitious library project aiming at providing free, online access to all works no longer in copyright...

... of a student copying another person's whole paper and turning it in as their own is only the crudest form. Copyright law Software tools © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 iThenticate also matches quoted texts to their original source. This can be interesting for an editor who wants...

... Limited 2008 Copyright law Behaviour Economics Teaching The term “gray copyright” does not exist in the copyright literature as far as I am aware, but it ought to and it is needed to describe those situations in which the practical degree of copyright protection can best be measured...

... Limited 2007 --> Licensing Interlibrary loans Interlibrary lending Copyright law The volume is typical of what we have come to expect from a Haworth Press monograph – a collection of articles sharing a common theme, simultaneously published as a serial, in this case the Journal...

...Bradford Lee Eden; Michael Seadle Purpose This column aims to look at the different economic and intellectual approaches to copyright as separate cultures whose assumptions and approaches make it difficult for them to share a single copyright law. Design/methodology/approach The methodology...

... of the substantial differences in their legal systems and their copyright laws. the collections of the library or archives are (i) open to the public, or (ii) available not only to researchers affiliated with the library or archives or with the institution of which it is a part, but also to other persons doing...

... expansion, and thereby fail to promote social welfare. Another restriction is the first sale doctrine. The first sale provision allows the purchaser of a copyrighted work to sell or lend that copy to someone else without the copyright holder's permission. These limits on copyright law are designed...

...Su Cleyle; Michael Seadle Purpose The purpose of this column is to look at how US copyright law deals with facts and what can reasonably be considered as a fact. Design/methodology/approach The US statutes and case law are examined, as well as standard practices within academic settings...

... These questions had to be addressed in face‐to‐face conversations. Much of my work in advising instructors about copyright law comes down to issues of judgment. Leaving these judgments to individual instructors would expose an institution to a very broad range of interpretations, and might tend to err on the side...

... for infringement comes to the courts. This cartoon may be seen as propaganda rather than as a representation of reality. Enforcement in most western countries takes place almost exclusively by rights holders or their legal representatives. That leads to some unusual features. Copyright law Risk assessment...

... between intellectual property consumers and rights holders could be worked out for orphan copyrights, it might lead to further “tit‐for‐tat” reactions that help to address other copyright issues. Originality/value Provides useful information on orphan copyrights. According to the copyright law...

.../value It remains to be seen whether having authors retain the right to provide open access will, over time, bring down journal costs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Copyright law Publishing Internet Recently I attended two forums that discussed open access and the crisis...

...Michael Seadle Interlibrary lending and document delivery have become an integral part of the services that contemporary libraries offer. The copyright laws in most countries authorized this copying within reasonable limits, but tensions with publishers may be growing. For interlibrary services...

... or archives has, after a reasonable effort, determined that an unused replacement cannot be obtained at a fair price; and © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Archives management Digital storage Copyright law Recently I was asked to speak on a panel at the German Library Congress...

..., whereby users can download high resolution images. Visual databases Copyright law Partnership Since the publication in 2002 of papers by Raym Crow and Clifford Lynch (Crow, 2002 ; Lynch, 2003) about libraries serving as institutional repositories (i.e. academic libraries developing digital...

... creative and business enterprises could be in incredible peril (Green, 2003). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Intellectual property Copyright law Statute law Ethics Consequences do, however, matter for ethics, and the fourth test in the statute offers a way to measure...