Roundtable: Copyright Issues and Issues Beyond Copyright

"What we’ve decided to do as our format for this presentation is: we have a number of scenarios that people have suggested of things that have actually come across their desks in the course of doing what they do. And we thought we would just go through these quickly and talk about the issues that they raise—a sort of issue-spotting exercise—and try to offer some guidance about maybe how to deal with those issues as well. We’re going to start by talking about a number of things other than copyright. We’ve had a lot of discussion today about copyright and we may get to some more copyright here if we have time, but I’m going to start by talking about a number of noncopyright issues in the areas of privacy, defamation, things like that that very often come up in the context both of sound and audiovisual materials, but also in the case of text and photographs and so on.

IP Basics: Copyright on the Internet

This discussion focuses on copyright issues most apt to concern those who post to or own email lists or those who have put up web pages. Such matters as the fundamental distinction between works that are and are not for hire, registration, and issues to consider in transferring copyright interests are treated in other copyright discussions above

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Teaching Student Researchers Boundaries

Librarians affiliated with educational institutions, as members of an academic community, participate in teaching students and future scholars how they share in the responsibility of upholding ethical standards of scholarship and values of academic honesty. Academic honesty, in its variant forms,was part of issues in education long before the introduction of computers. Two forms, plagiarism and copyright infringement, were chronic problems in the print realm and present additional dimensions in today’s electronic environment. The causes of copyright infringement and plagiarism are extensive and complex. Divergent positions are represented in the literature on how to deal with these issues. They are not only legal issues, but moral and ethical issues as well

Copyright and mass social authorship: a case study of the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Social authorship ventures involving masses of volunteers like Wikipedia are thought to be a phenomenon enabled by digital technology, presenting new challenges for copyright law. By contrast, the case study explored in this article uncovers copyright issues considered in relation to a nineteenth century social authorship precedent: the seventy-year process of compiling the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary instigated by the not-for-profit Philological Society in 1858 which involved thousands of casually organised volunteer readers and sub-editors. Drawing on extensive original archival research, the article uses the case study as a means of critically reflecting on the claims of existing interdisciplinary literature concerning copyright and ‘authorship’: unlike the claims of the so-called Romanticism thesis, the article argues that copyright law supported an understanding of NED authorship as collaborative and democratic. Further, in uncovering the practical solutions which lawyers considered in debating issues relating to title and rights clearance, the article uses the nineteenth century experience as a vantage point for considering how these issues are approached today: despite the very different context, the copyright problems and solutions debated in the nineteenth century demonstrate remarkable continuity with those considered in relation to social authorship projects today

Knowledge Management for Foundations: Planning Study

Outlines objectives, methodologies, and issues for components of a study on knowledge management among foundations and solutions to challenges: existing practice, a market study, copyright issues, technical standards, taxonomies, and a pilot repository

Copyright Protection In The Digital Era: A Malaysian Perspective

This paper seeks to explore the significance of copyright protection in Malaysia’s business environment of the digital era. Copyright law is increasingly being challenged with the intensification of internet use now. Issues of piracy and infringement of rights raise concerns surrounding the enforcement of legal measures for protection of copyrights. Hence the paper aim to understand the role and function of copyright in the digital era, and assessing the Malaysian society’s awareness of cyberspace copyright protection. This is an interpretive research carried out by conducting interviews, on 3 different groups of respondents, which are the dot.com companies, the IP professionals and government officials. The findings indicate there is a difference amongst the three groups in the understanding and awareness of Intellectual Property Rights and copyright protection; and that Malaysian government is not actively and effectively promoting awareness of the copyright issues to the public. Also it is imperative for Malaysian authorities to enhance protection of copyright in cyberspace.