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Latest Posting: Rights & Distribution
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| Abstracts of Paper by Keynote Speaker Dr Harald Müller |
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Rights & Distribution
Once upon a time the world of libraries was filled with just analogue media. Books, journals or documents were printed on paper, musical information was hidden in an analogue track on a vinyl disk and movies were only available on film or video tape, both an analogue media too. Copying any analogue information source always resulted in a massive loss of quality. In the analogue world major legal problems with reproductions for document supply just didn’t exist. It was a case of fair use or any similar legal concept. No national legislation mentioned the problem. But the good old days are over. In the age of digital media it suddenly is possible to produce an exact reproduction of an original without any loss of quality. So document supply by libraries and interlibrary loan moves nearer to the production of originals. In recent years cases against libraries were brought before court, copyright bills containing specific regulations about document supply were brought into national parliaments and libraries found in their mail licence offers worked out by huge global law firms. The law discovered document supply.
This presentation will give a short overview about the legal problems libraries might face today with document supply, but will also speak against the radical commercialization of information, as free access to knowledge is a human right.
on behalf of Harald Müller 12 April 2007 |
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| Are libraries being squeezed out? |
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More and more, we are observing the publishers peddling their electronic documents on their own. Are we seeing a trend towards B to P (business to person) transactions? If so, would libraries be dropped away in lieu of direct connectivity with the owner of information?
The fear ofcourse is if a purely business model emerges we would be going back to a structure of haves versus the have-nots, and the role of libraries as a social leveller becomes in jeopardy. What are your views? |
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| It's alright, right? |
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Yes, the perennial question; are libraries doing right by providing access to information that we don`t own? Or what are the legal implications and repercussions that content owners may exercise upon those who venture into gray areas of the laws?
We have invited Dr.Harald Müller from the Max-Placnk Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law Library (pending his official acceptance) - to speak to us about these issues that is happening in the library world.
Your view points count too, so please feel free to share your issues and raise discussion points which we can feedback to the speakers of our conference to touch upon. |
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