The WIPO development agenda and the contribution of the international library community

Fernández-Molina, Juan Carlos; Guimarães, José Augusto Chaves

doi:10.1108/02640470911004093

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“…Along with the evolution of society's views regarding copyright laws and other laws governing intellectual property, the open access movement (e.g. Suber, 2003; McCulloch, 2006; Fernández‐Molina and Guimarães, 2009) seems to provide possible solutions to fulfill students' needs. Although the copyright laws or the open access progress themselves are not the focus of this study, students' (mis)conceptions of digital resource‐related copyright laws, as the results presented in this study, lead us to critically rethink and reflect on these issues.…”

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College students' misunderstandings about copyright laws for digital library resources

Chou

et al. 2010

The Electronic Library

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PurposeThis paper has two primary purposes: to explore common copyright‐related problems that arise when librarians promote the use of digital library resources; and to investigate college students' misconceptions of copyright laws that arise when the students use these resources.Design/methodology/approachFour librarians in charge of the management of digital library resources were interviewed regarding student‐users' problematic copyright‐infringement behaviors that these librarians often encountered when they promoted the use of digital library resources. Also, a semi‐structured questionnaire with nine questions about copyright‐related behaviors was developed and distributed to college students. Students needed not only to identify whether the behavior was acceptable, but also to explain the reasons for their identification. A total of 109 valid sets of data were collected from 18 universities or colleges, the sets comprising responses from 48 undergraduate, 56 postgraduate, and five doctoral students.FindingsThe librarian‐interview results indicate that students' problematic behaviors included systematic downloading, distribution to unauthorized users, and going beyond the purpose and character of academic use. The student‐survey results indicate that students had four major areas of misunderstanding about copyright laws when using digital library resources: the digital resources should be shared; the downloaded digital resources are all legitimately authorized and permitted; all educational use is fair use; and any downloading is permitted as long as students are paying tuition.Originality/valueThis paper explores students' understanding and misunderstandings that arose when students used the school digital library resources and discusses implications of these results for librarians and libraries with regard to the design of related instruction. The paper also presents interpretations of students' thoughts and conduct, as well as some future possible research topics.

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College students' misunderstandings about copyright laws for digital library resources

Chou

et al. 2010

The Electronic Library

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“…Intellectual property rights -including copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade secrets-are knowledge asset generators but represent only a portion of the overall intellectual capital of a modern library. Moreover, exceptions and harmonization of intellectual property rights legislation is discussed for libraries and archives in a globalized manner (Fernandez-Molina & Guimaraes, 2009). At the same time, the digitization of out of copyright material is gradually undertaken by public libraries so as to preserve old, brittle and crumbling documents for their communities.…”

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Managing knowledge capital in public libraries for a knowledge-driven socioeconomic environment

Κωσταγιόλας

2013

Library Management

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“…The steadfast intervention of library associations in this process seems to have been effective: the final list of 45 recommendations included their most noteworthy proposals, referring to the public domain, to participation in the activities of establishing norms, and the need to take into account the different levels of development. What is more, these points were also among the 19 that were considered essential and therefore designated for immediate implementation (Fernández-Molina and Guimarães, 2009).…”

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Library exceptions in the copyright laws of Ibero-American countries

Fernández-Molina

Guimarães

2010

Information Development

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The development of the digital setting has made it absolutely necessary to revise copyright legislation as a whole, including the exceptions that benefit libraries and similar institutions. Unfortunately, adaptation to the new technological reality is not taking place satisfactorily in most countries -the predominating trend is a refortification of copyright as opposed to user interests, and the maintenance of a certain pre-digital philosophy. In the case of Ibero-America the problem is twofold: aside from obsolescence or a lack of adaptation to the new technological setting, there are countries that have not yet included library-related exceptions in the national laws. Moreover, these happen to be developing countries, whose needs and interests do not coincide with those of the richer nations who paved the path to be followed by international treaties and copy-or copyright agreements. This study looks into the situation of exceptions to copyright to benefit libraries in the countries constituting Ibero-America, with a comparative analysis of the most significant characteristics of their national laws. It is concluded that it is crucial for these countries to take advantage of the options offered through the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996 and the results of the WIPO Development Agenda to update their legislation, in order that copyright will be respected, while at the same time making it easier for libraries to continue carrying out their social function in an adequate manner, always with the understanding of the developmental context of these countries.

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The WIPO development agenda and the contribution of the international library community

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

College students' misunderstandings about copyright laws for digital library resources

College students' misunderstandings about copyright laws for digital library resources

Managing knowledge capital in public libraries for a knowledge-driven socioeconomic environment

Library exceptions in the copyright laws of Ibero-American countries

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