This webinar with Dr. Konrad Gliściński (Centrum Cyfrowe, Jagiellonian University), author of a new study from Knowledge Rights 21 “e-Books and Secure Digital Lending in European Libraries – Comparative Analysis under National and International Law,” will discuss the state of copyright laws across Europe, and the extent to which, in the light of the 2016 ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), eBook lending by libraries is possible.
Why You Should Attend
Libraries and their patrons have, for millennia, been able to acquire, develop collections, preserve, and lend books. While a work is still in copyright, limitations and exceptions, as well as the exhaustion doctrine, support these four pillar functions of libraries.
However, the move to digital has undermined the ability of a library to act as they have always been able to. This is because when these activities take place digitally, the safeguards that exist under copyright laws are trumped by contract law, offering no protections for libraries and their patrons.
Not only does this undermine the core function of what a library is in the 21st century, downstream it negatively impacts on the ability of students, researchers, members of the public and clinicians to acquire knowledge – something that underpins the smooth-functioning of the knowledge economy.
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