Restrictive copyright laws create legal barriers to using resources for education, research and socio-economic development. This can have significant consequences for people who use libraries in developing and transition economy countries, where the ability to produce and use knowledge is a major factor in development.

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Today, 8th September 2023, the availability of books for Ukrainians who are blind (...)
At WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/43) that took (...)
EIFL and the international library, archives and museum communities have called on (...)

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Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, shares video (...)
On 27 June 2013, member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO (...)
Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, looks back at a (...)

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Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, will participate in (...)
EIFL-IP IN ACTION
Library services in Poland enter the twenty-first (...)
EIFL is working towards an international copyright (...)
EIFL supports the Marrakesh Treaty and its impleme (...)