Copyright Fair Use and Libraries

Each country has its own copyright policy. Indian copy right act after independence was first came into existence in the year 1957, since than the act was amended from time to time to accommodate with the changing conditions. Recently a fresh amendment called “copyright amendment Act 2012” has been enacted by the Government of India bringing changes to the copyright Act 1957. The present study traces the historical development of the Indian copyright act in a chronological order, and elaborates the major changes made in the new act. The study also traces the areas of library services, which are directly concerned with copyright issues. Finally the study highlighted the provisions of newly amended copyright act that has some impact on libraries.

Library Philosophy and Practice, 2021

Academic librarians often need to deal with copyright issues at their institutions while handling information resources, and they must have a clear understanding of copyright laws, practices, and its implications. This paper examines the copyright trends in India, and librarian’s familiarity with copyright laws and sources consulted to acquire copyright education. Copyright registrations in India are constantly increasing and copyright infringement cases are gradually decreasing. The study has shown impressive results that the majority of academic librarians (90.70%) are aware of copyright laws and their practice. Further, the study illustrates that the majority of librarians (63.27%) have only a basic level of copyright knowledge, and a marginal number of librarians working at medical college libraries (18.18%), university libraries (14.29%), and engineering college libraries (4.65%) have better knowledge of copyright laws. The results of the study suggest the advanced level copyright education at the library schools and continuous opportunities in the form of conferences, workshops, and seminars, etc. It has become compelling at workplaces that better-equipped librarians in terms of deeper knowledge on copyright-related issues in the digital environment are to be appointed.

Librarians have to play a very significant role of balancing between user of information and the creator of information. They have to deal with copyright issues in their day to day activities of library. It is expected from them they should remain well aware of copyright related matters. This paper tries to find out academic librarians awareness of copyright related issues. The study conducted survey among University academic librarians of West Bengal with questioner method and the results are analyzed to draw conclusion.

A very important area in the field of intellectual property rights law is copy right law. In the simplest term copyright can be defined as an exclusive right to ‘copy’ certain intellectual works created by a person. Initially, copyright law only applied to the copying of books, over the time other issues such as translations and derivative works were made subject to copyright, and now copyright covers a wide range of area. Different issues are related with them, and several interest groups are associated with it, some of them directly, some indirectly. These interest groups are integral part of various copyright issues. Copyright in relation to library matters has attracted the attention of many researchers. There are a good number of published literature related to this issue is available in various information sources. Various authors tried to explore this area from various aspects. In the present study a through literature search is made to identify the related research work published both at national and international level. All these literatures are reviewed, their objective, working methodology, findings and conclusion part are scrutinized carefully. The study further tries to find out - the trend of research in this subject field as well as identify those areas which are not yet explored and hence calls for special attention.

BiLD Law Journal , Vol: 3, Issue: 1, 2018

Library is the key place for copyright violation process. As a facilitator, the librarian has connected to authors, publishers, aggregators, distributors, vendors, and users and so on. The toughest task for librarian is to balance copyright and use of copyrighted material within the purview of laws. The librarian can ensure the reputation of organization and may avoid misuse of copyrighted material by its stakeholders by creating awareness about copyright laws. As per the law the person who has infringed the material is solely held responsible for his act. Violating copyright laws would lead to legal disputes between Copyright holder, publisher, distributor, vendor, aggregator and user or stakeholder of concerned institution. The main objective of the study is to highlight the scope of Copyright law on academic library issues in Bangladesh. Both primary and secondary sources have been used during the time of research. Some of the findings of the study indicated that copyright violation and inadequate provisions regarding copyright implementation in Bangladesh is a regular affair. At last some suggestions have been provided to minimize the existing grey areas of academic library and copyright issues.

Legal and Organizational Issues, 2011

This chapter examined digital libraries and copyright issues. It considered several issues such as the meaning of digital libraries, the characteristics, functions, digital scholarship services, copyright and the materials that can be and cannot be copyrighted, fair use of library materials, reservation for general use, access to electronic copies, guidelines for fair use in the digital libraries, library reproduction and re-distribution and inter-library loan. The chapter concludes that, reading through this chapter, undergraduates, academics and other library users will have a good understanding of what the digital libraries are and copyright issue all of which are considered very important and germane as we approach paperless society.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005

Journal of the University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka, 2009

Copyright' is a very much interested, but not comprehensively resolved topic in both legal and library professional arenas. This paper simply describes types of works protected by copyright, standards, procedure for getting protection, infringement, duration of rights, and international protection for the benefit of librariansspecially with respect to the Sri Lankan context.