Digital libraries, digital law? A tale of copyright challenges and chances
Abstract
This contribution inquires the following assumption: if libraries have a public task to provide low threshold access to (online) information, then shouldn’t copyright law, as a system of exclusive rights and exceptions which shares goals in the organization and dissemination of information, somehow facilitate that task?
Copyright, Copyright Directive, copyright reform, Darmstadt, digital libraries, exceptions, frontpage, libraries, Orphan Works Directive, public task
Bibtex
Chapter{Breemen2016,
title = {Digital libraries, digital law? A tale of copyright challenges and chances},
author = {Breemen, V.},
url = {http://depot.lias.be/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE7828796&},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-10-28},
abstract = {This contribution inquires the following assumption: if libraries have a public task to provide low threshold access to (online) information, then shouldn’t copyright law, as a system of exclusive rights and exceptions which shares goals in the organization and dissemination of information, somehow facilitate that task?},
keywords = {Copyright, Copyright Directive, copyright reform, Darmstadt, digital libraries, exceptions, frontpage, libraries, Orphan Works Directive, public task},
}