Librarians play key roles in shaping national and international copyright policy and in protecting and promoting access to knowledge. EIFL has created a crucial network of librarians in developing and transition countries. It is essential that the members of that network have the fullest possible understanding, not just of the current copyright laws, but also of the ways in which those laws could and should be interpreted and modified in the future.
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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.
WHAT WE DO
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NEWS
In a public consultation organized by the Parliament of Malawi in February 2025, (...)
Resources from four EIFL webinars on copyright issues for libraries, that took place (...)
Public Lending Right (PLR) gives authors (and other rightsholders) the right to (...)
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Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, reports on the (...)
Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, reports on a recent (...)
Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, summarizes the key (...)
EIFL-IP IN ACTION
EIFL advocates for an international copyright fram (...)
CONTACT US
For questions, please contact the Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager Teresa Hackett:
teresa.hackett@eifl.net