Internet Archives Liberates Old Books Using Never Used Before Provision Of Copyright Law | Techdirt

Amyluv's bookmarks 2017-10-12

Summary:

"Section 108 of copyright law doesn't get very much attention (though, we did just mention it in regards to an archive of Howard Stern/Donald Trump interviews). It's the part of the law that grants some fairly narrow exceptions to copyright for libraries and archives. In short, it was a recognition that libraries and archives are good and important things, and copyright law under the 1976 Copyright Act would basically make them illegal. Rather than fixing the fact that copyright law was too broad, Section 108 simply carved out a few important exceptions. Many of those exceptions are, unfortunately, under attack from all the usual sources."

Link:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171011/16342138391/internet-archives-liberates-old-books-using-never-used-before-provision-copyright-law.shtml

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Tags:

oa.new oa.ia oa.books oa.pd oa.copyright

Date tagged:

10/12/2017, 22:28

Date published:

10/12/2017, 18:28