LIBER responds to EU copyright review
7 March 2014
The European research library network LIBER has submitted its response to the European Commission consultation on copyright rules
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Considering rights in a digital age
15 October 2012
Emily Goodhand examines the implications of recent copyright announcements and news, and speculates on whether a happy medium in digital copyright will ever truly be achieved
Treaty provokes tensions over rights
13 March 2012
Sian Harris finds out why a treaty on intellectual property and digital rights is causing widespread protests
EU addresses orphan works and 'out-of-commerce' books and journals
18 October 2011
A new European agreement is tackling the challenge of how to revive books and journals that predate the internet without damaging the rights of authors and publishers, write Carlo Scollo Lavizzari and André Myburgh, attorneys-at-law at Lenz Caemmerer
Industry welcomes recommendations on IP in UK
18 May 2011
The European Publishers Council, the British Library and JISC are among the organisations that have welcomed the recommendations made to the UK Government by the Hargreaves Review into intellectual property
FreePint report looks at managing copyright
31 March 2011
A new report by FreePint Research into managing copyright has concluded that information managers have been successful in communicating about copyright risk and raising awareness amongst workers about their role in managing it
Europe considers 'digital copyright symbol'
12 November 2010
European Commission takes on European's Publisher Council's copyright ideas
Copyright law prevents access to millions of 'orphan works'
15 June 2009
Millions of "orphan works" cannot be accessed online because their rights holders cannot be found
Article tools can help pirates
7 May 2009
Online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'article tools' on their web pages
US publishers welcome copyright protection
10 February 2009
The Association of American Publishers has welcomed US legislation that aims to safeguard the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.
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