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What's Your (Current Copyright) Problem?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Sandy Norman
Sandy Norman
Affiliation:
Sandy Norman is a freelance copyright consultant and Copyright Adviser to The Library Association. During her previous employment at the LA, Sandy built up an expert knowledge of copyright and has over ten years' experience in representing the library profession at copyright hearings and meetings. She has written many articles and presented papers both nationally and internationally on copyright issues which concern the profession, and is the author of the LA publication: Copyright in Industrial and Commercial Libraries. Sandy is the secretary of the Library Association Copyright Alliance (LACA), and is a member of several committees including the EBLIDA Experts Copyright Group and the IFLA Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters. From 1992–1996, she was the Copyright Adviser to IFLA where she represented IFLA at major meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
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No, I am not about to start an agony aunt copyright column but rather aim to select and try to resolve one or two copyright problems law librarians may have. Law librarians are no different from any other set of library and information professionals in finding copyright a difficult area. Copyright may be a minefield, as is so often said, but if one is aware of the potential problems and treads carefully, a safe path may be found through it.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Summer 2001 , pp. 14 - 16
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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References

1. The digitised item is deleted by the librarian once sent and the recipient does the same at the other end once a printed copy has been taken. The result is the same as if a photocopy had been made and sent This may be acceptable but then it could have just been sent by fax, which may be a lot simpler, and considerably less risky.

2. Copyrights and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997, reg 19

3. ibid, reg 12

4. Available on Lawtel and http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/judgments/judg_home.htm.

5. Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights the information society.

6. CDPA 1988, s 18: Issuing to the public right.