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Pistorius, Tana; Mwim, Odirachukwu S. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2019
Background: The evolution in digital technologies has had an enormous impact on traditional copyright notions. Works in digital form have uniform characteristics and these works can be copied, distributed and stored with ease. Objectives: The focus of this article was how to attain a balance between the need to promote access to works and…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Copyrights, Laws, Intellectual Property
Jaeger, Paul T.; Bertot, John Carlo; Gorham, Ursula – Library Quarterly, 2013
Public libraries are heavily affected by political and policy-making processes that shape the funding, activities, and roles of libraries in society, with the explosion of information policy decisions in the past two decades significantly increasing the responsibilities of libraries while also increasing limitations on their activities. Research…
Descriptors: Information Policy, Public Libraries, Information Science, Information Science Education
Palmer, Mark H. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
The centering processes of geographic information system (GIS) development at the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was an extension of past cartographic encounters with American Indians through the central control of geospatial technologies, uneven development of geographic information resources, and extension of technically dependent…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, United States History, American Indian History, American Indians
Skala, Matthew; Bonfield, Brett; Torpey, Mary Fran – Library Journal, 2008
Librarians face a dilemma when it comes to copyright. On the one hand, if content providers disappeared, libraries and their patrons would suffer. By doing their part to eliminate copyright violations, they help keep publishers in business. On the other hand, they understand that "information wants to be free." They resent license agreements that…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Professional Associations, Ethics, Librarians
Lee, Jyh-An – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Intellectual commons are intellectual resources, which anyone can use either without permission, or with permission granted in advance. Since intellectual commons are crucially important to creativity, innovation, and human development, the shrinkage of the intellectual-commons environment will be a profound loss for our cultural freedom.…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Business, Intellectual Property, Innovation
Sesemane, M. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2007
Policy formulation and implementation is a highly contested domain within the South African Higher Education landscape. This contestation can be attributed to the lack of wide stakeholder involvement and the architecture of the policy-making process. The contestation is also born of an absence of a systemic monitoring and evaluation mechanism to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Information, Quality Control, Foreign Countries

Harper, Georgia K. – Educause Review, 2000
The pace and the magnitude of the changes taking place in our society today are threatening to skew the balance between copyright holders and information users. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has the potential to undermine the public right to access information and to share information with others. (JM)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Copyrights, Fair Use (Copyrights), Higher Education
Zografos, Daphne – E-Learning, 2006
Society increasingly perceives information as an owned commodity. As a consequence, laws born from this conception are removing uses of information from the public domain and placing them in an enclosed domain where they are subject to an owner's exclusive control. It has been argued that this enclosure movement poses a threat to the diversity of…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Copyrights, Information Sources, Access to Information
Garlick, Mia – EDUCAUSE Review, 2005
With the advent of the widespread adoption of digital technologies and the commercial phase of the Internet in the late 1990s came the empowerment of individuals to copy and redistribute content. Accustomed to equating their permission to use content such as music, books, and movies with the scope of their physical use of the product, people…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Certification, Electronic Publishing, Access to Information

Lopez, Xavier R. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1997
Examines two multilateral approaches that aim to raise the level of intellectual property protection for databases. Discusses how both proposals, the European Union (EU) new Database Directive and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty fail to provide ample copyright exemption provisions, necessary for offsetting the expanded…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Copyrights, Databases, Fair Use (Copyrights)
O'Rourke, Maureen A. – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Discusses copyright law, linking without permission, and trademark law--limiting the manner links are displayed. Explains framing, allowed by law, though particular use of a frame could confuse consumers as to the information source, and how framing may implicate trademark concerns. Examines Second Circuit opinion that could severely limit the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Copyrights, Federal Legislation, Information Technology
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This report analyses the disclosure issues raised by technically-imposed restrictions on the use of digital content. It focuses on the application of copy control and digital rights management technologies in three areas: copy-protected CDs; online music, and DVD regional coding. In each of these areas, the report examines the kinds of…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Policy, Information Technology, Access to Information
Kiel-Chisholm, Scott; Fitzgerald, Brian – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
Management of intellectual property and, in particular, copyright is one of the most challenging issues in an increasingly digital world. The rise of the open access (OA) movement provides a new model for managing intellectual property in educational and research environments. OA aims to promote greater and more efficient access to educational and…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Electronic Publishing
Smith, Marshall S.; Casserly, Catherine M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
Open educational resources (OER) include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to either support access to knowledge, or have an impact on teaching, learning, and research. At the heart of the OER movement is the simple and powerful idea that the…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Internet, Intellectual Property
Galvin, Thomas J. – 1989
This paper addresses the very timely issue of national information policy, particularly in view of the pending second White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services in July 1991. Information policy is examined from economic, political, and social points of view and the national government is urged to address the challenging task of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Economics, Information Networks, Information Science