28 Oct 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
In this guest blog, Professor Brandon Butler, American University Washington College of Law (WCL), discusses the merits of the fair use doctrine in the US and addresses commonly held objections to the more widespread introduction of open norms in national copyright laws.
The blog accompanies a (...)
01 Jul 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
This blog was updated in July 2016 to include data from 2015 and to coincide with the termination of the British Library international, non-commercial document supply service.
Document delivery is a vital service in meeting the particular information needs of individual researchers, students and (...)
27 Apr 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
Local users and global resources
Digital technologies have changed libraries, access to information, and indeed the world. The information landscape has been revolutionized, especially for academic and scholarly resources in university libraries.
The library is no longer confined to a physical (...)
12 Mar 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
On 11 March 2015, the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights presented her report ‘Copyright Policy and the Right to Science and Culture’ at the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The thematic report examines copyright law and policy from the standpoint (...)
19 Jan 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
“Copyright divide in numbers”, the graph on the first page of the newly launched ‘The Copyright Manifesto. How the European Union should Support Innovation and Creativity through Copyright Reform’ tells a story. In an illustration of the results of the European Union’s (EU) 2014 consultation on (...)
19 Dec 2014
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
We really didn’t know what to expect from the last WIPO meeting of 2014. Two previous sessions of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) had failed to reach agreement on its work, mainly due to opposition from the European Union and other high-income countries to the (...)
23 Oct 2014
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
In many countries, textbooks on particular areas of law such as criminal, constitutional or contract law become classics that are widely regarded by policy makers, lawyers and scholars alike as the authoritative source of information and opinion on the subject.
In Poland, the most prestigious work (...)