Modern and fast ways of information reproduction affect the social norms and moral responsibilities of citizens. Nowadays libraries are continuously facing the problem of maintaining the balance between providing information access and whilst also protecting authors' rights. The recent and emerging phenomenon of misinformation and disinformation…

This paper describes the results of a study to compare contemporary e-journal licenses from two research universities in the United States and Spain in terms of e-reserves, interlibrary loan, text and data mining, authors' rights and treatment of copyright exceptions, usage statistics, governing law, data privacy, and obligations entailing…

School librarians and educators have specific copyright questions that are often glossed over in larger books on the subject. Now, thanks to best-selling copyright authority Carrie Russell, there's a resource just for them, offering clear guidance for providing materials to students while carefully observing copyright law. Using whimsical…

This report addresses the question of what libraries and archives are legally empowered to do to preserve and make accessible for research their holdings of unpublished pre-1972 sound recordings. The report's author, June M. Besek, is executive director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School. Unpublished sound…

This digest focuses on a variety of issues confronting copyright law in the digital age. The current copyright law was adopted in 1976, and could not possibly have foreseen so many new technologies. However, it did attempt to cover all bases by using language which was intended to be somewhat elastic. A current report by the U.S. Department of…

In this copyright infringment suit, the plaintiff (Williams & Wilkins Company) alleges that the defendent (Department of Health, Education and Welfare) through its agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has infringed plaintiff's copyrights in medical journals by making unauthorized…

Laws governing the reproduction of works protected by copyright in various countries and current practices followed by libraries and other institutions are discussed. Reference is made to the copyright problems facing developing countries. (Author)

Recent laws and regulations which affect the operation of federal libraries and which have not been previously reported are summarized. (Author/NH)

"Reserves" are defined as selected writings made available to individual and successive students for educational purposes, subject to sharp time limitations and, usually, to restrictions on physical removal from the library premises. The Library Photocopying and Fair Use sections of the copyright law are discussed in this regard. (LBH)

Examines the issues involved in Williams and Wilkins Co. v. United States in which a Court of Claims reversed the trial commissioner's decision that a library's distributing photocopied reprints of medical journal articles was copyright infringement. Argues that publishers of medical journals must be granted copyright protection against library…

The statutory scheme of the Copyright Act of 1976 Section 106 is reviewed, followed by an analysis of the impact of the new provisions on such library activities as lending, photocopying, offering secondary services, and operating library networks and consortia. (LBH)

California Librarian, the official periodical of the California Library Association, includes in its April 1974 issue: an article on high school media programs and problems, a study of graduate students' attitudes toward librarians and media specialists, a discussion of the use of supply-demand equalization in evaluating collection adequacy, a…

Since public libraries contain copyrighted works in the form of print, electronic or audiovisual sources, librarians and library paraprofessionals need to possess sufficient knowledge of United States copyright law to meet the information needs of patrons successfully and legally. A literature review revealed that minimal works address this topic.…