What happens when “fair use”, “fair dealing”, face-to-face teaching guidelines and other copyright exceptions do not apply? Only three choices remain: give up plans to use the protected work, make a risk-assessment about ...

Two recent court cases have redefined how images may be used on the Internet without copyright infringement. The Bridgeman case is based explicitly on British as well as US law. Kelly v. Arriba rested on the definition of ...

In copyright law, the principle of moral rights is that some part of the creator’s personality has gone into each original work, and that that element of personality cannot be sold or transferred. Moral rights are not about ...

Internet-based distance education has become big business for both universities and the commercial world. The new TEACH Act was intended to make US copyright law friendlier toward Internet-based distance education. In fact ...

Der so genannte grüne Weg ist die am einfachsten zu realisierende Spielart von Open Access. Auch unter dem Begriff Self Archiving bekannt, bezeichnet er das zusätzliche Veröffentlichen wissenschaftlicher Publikationen ...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen Autoren ökonomisch davon profitieren können, dass sie ihre Werke unter einer Creative-Commons-Lizenz frei verfügbar machen. Methodisch werden anthropologische Techniken ...

OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogues) sind heute meist der einzige Zugang zu den Beständen einer Bibliothek, doch zeigt die Praxis, dass viele Nutzer Probleme bei der Bedienung elektronischer Kataloge haben. Ein guter ...

Copyright is integral to everything we do in digital publishing. This new column will examine a wide range of intellectual property issues using concrete examples from current projects. Since Internet-based publishing is ...

Purpose – The purpose of this column is to look at how copyright enforcement is handled. Design/methodology/approach – Legal issues in enforcement are examined, as well as the initiatives of organizations like the Recording ...