The Rijeka City Library started to engage in Wikimedia activities within the library led by Z. Blace and Kristian Benić. IFLA is delighted to travel to Croatia to have a dive in this project. 1. Thank you for agreeing to participate in this interview, could you please tell us more about yourself and your collaborators? […]
Read moreLionel Maurel, librarian and lawyer in France, works at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) on open science. For many years, he has been defending the interests of libraries on his blog S.I.LEX by offering legal analysis to librarians concerning e-lending, copyright reforms and the public domain. This article presents his reflections from […]
Read moreCompetition law and policy are not always high up the agenda for libraries. As public services, we are interested in overall approaches to the public sector. As part of the research and education infrastructure, we care about policies in these areas. As institutions depending on copyright exceptions and limitations to do our jobs, we care […]
Read moreWhat is the public domain? The public domain includes all creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Works protected by copyright are those where the rightsholder has the potential to limit access and many uses in exchange for remuneration. After the death of the author of the work, the work continues to […]
Read moreOriginally posted in the IFLA SpeakUp! blog, run by IFLA’s FAIFE Committee. Libraries have traditionally acted as facilitators of access to information. In this role, libraries serve as intermediaries not gatekeepers or watchdogs. Libraries diffuse the use of new technologies to their patrons, empowering and unleashing the potential of human mind. The law generally views […]
Read moreRecent stories about the activities – the misdeeds – of Cambridge Analytica have provided an illustration of the power of information. It is true that digital technologies and techniques allowing the ‘mining’ of data have opened up unprecedented opportunities to gain understanding of our environment, and ourselves. Just as it has turbo-charged scientific research, it […]
Read moreIn most of the discussions about either copyright or Internet policy that IFLA attends, the term ‘Internet platform’ is usually code for Google or Facebook. They provide a place where individuals – from writers and creators to propagandists and people uploading large numbers of illicit copies of films – can reach an audience wider than […]
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