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Comparative analysis of national approaches on voluntary copyright relinquishment
The report considers first the question of how copyright is justified, as this may have some bearing on whether a country will allow an author to make a voluntary statement leading to the expiration of his/her rights. Copyright can variously be described as a natural right, as a reward for creators, as a stimulus for creativity, as a property right, as an economic reward and as part of the public interest. Two justifications are explored, the moral and the utilitarian. The moral justification places the existence of intellectual property as a natural result of the right of the creator to anything he or she produces. The moral element of copyright has given way to the economic one, but the existence of moral rights, particularly important in civil law jurisdictions, continues to strongly represent the elements of copyright as a personality right
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Fair Use is Not Civil Disobedience: Rethinking the Copyright Wars and the Role of the Academic Library
The academic library community has been at the center
of the copyright wars, advancing the interests of
students and faculty. Digital and network technologies,
the licensing of electronic content, and the globalization
of copyright have combined to challenge
our traditional views of intellectual property. New
laws and legislation over the past decade have threatened
the sustenance of fair use and key exceptions to
copyright. We must re-commit to the education of
our campuses, to political advocacy, and to collective
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Using Open Educational Resources to Empower Student Creators
As students are asked to complete multimodal assignments in their higher education courses, librarians can guide students to the use of open educational resources (OER), as many librarians are already teaching students about copyright and how to respect intellectual property rights. Two instructional librarians designed a one-shot lesson for first-year composition students around the use of open resources, where the goal of instruction was for students to be empowered with their creative rights and to use the open resources available to them as creators
Museum Policies and Art Images: Conflicting Objectives and Copyright Overreaching
Introduction Claims of copyright protection that overreach the bounds of justifiable legal rights occur in many different contexts. Indeed, in almost any copyright litigation, issues regularly surround the legitimacy of the copyright and the rightful claim to it. Although multitudes of copyright questions arise daily, few of them ever go before a judge. Most people struggle with their conflicts and decisions in the simpler context of day-to-day transactions. One context where such decisions r..
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