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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| author | Smith, Kevin L. |
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| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | Copyright Renewal for Libraries: Seven Steps toward a User-Friendly Law Smith, Kevin L. Copyrights Libraries Library Services Librarians Legal Responsibility Compliance (Legal) Access to Information Change Strategies Federal Legislation Intellectual Property Nonprint Media Taxes Moral Values Library Materials Copyright law is a source of a great deal of bewilderment and frustration to academic librarians. Beyond the basics of copyright protection and fair use, most librarians struggle to grasp the complexity of the law and the roadblocks it presents to access and use. This article attempts to elucidate some of those complexities by suggesting seven steps toward copyright reform that would make the law more useful for libraries. These suggestions address such issues as the predictability of the application of copyright law, specific exceptions for libraries, and ways to ensure that more copyrights remain in the hands of authors. (Contains 83 notes.) |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2010 |
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| spellingShingle | Copyright Renewal for Libraries: Seven Steps toward a User-Friendly Law Smith, Kevin L. Copyrights Libraries Library Services Librarians Legal Responsibility Compliance (Legal) Access to Information Change Strategies Federal Legislation Intellectual Property Nonprint Media Taxes Moral Values Library Materials Copyright Renewal for Libraries: Seven Steps toward a User-Friendly Law Smith, Kevin L. Copyrights Libraries Library Services Librarians Legal Responsibility Compliance (Legal) Access to Information Change Strategies Federal Legislation Intellectual Property Nonprint Media Taxes Moral Values Library Materials Copyright law is a source of a great deal of bewilderment and frustration to academic librarians. Beyond the basics of copyright protection and fair use, most librarians struggle to grasp the complexity of the law and the roadblocks it presents to access and use. This article attempts to elucidate some of those complexities by suggesting seven steps toward copyright reform that would make the law more useful for libraries. These suggestions address such issues as the predictability of the application of copyright law, specific exceptions for libraries, and ways to ensure that more copyrights remain in the hands of authors. (Contains 83 notes.) |
| title | Copyright Renewal for Libraries: Seven Steps toward a User-Friendly Law |
| topic | Copyrights Libraries Library Services Librarians Legal Responsibility Compliance (Legal) Access to Information Change Strategies Federal Legislation Intellectual Property Nonprint Media Taxes Moral Values Library Materials |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ875239 |