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How to deal with preservation of software with unknown author and licence?
Some even very old educational software is still of value today and it is worth preserving.
The problem is that nowadays the licence rights are very important topic, but 20 or 30 years ago it was not ...
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Identifying if something might have fallen out of copyright
Our (newly formed) town historical society had someone bring by a yearbook from 1946, so there's a good possibility that it fell out of copyright in that period when authors had to register to extend ...
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Copyright law of book jacket design [closed]
What does the law say about the copyright of book jacket design?
I am the sole librarian and my library owns a certain book. Since I didn’t like the original jacket, I made my own based on the design ...
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What is the copyright regulation about how much portion of a book may be copied or scanned?
What is the general copyright regulation about how much portion of a book may be copied or scanned, when the book is borrowed from a library, for example, a university library by its graduate ...
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To what extent can patrons legally copy/lend media they've checked out?
Can patrons rips CDs that they've borrowed? Can they put those files on their iPod? Can they lend them to a friend? If they can, what should happen to those files when they return the CD? Is it okay ...
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How does “fair dealing” in Australia generally differ from “fair use” (America)?
How does the common law concept of "fair dealing" in Australia generally differ from the statutory and case law concept of "fair use" in the United States?
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What, if any, non-statutory factors of fair use exist and are likely to be used as precedent in the future?
The four statutory factors are as follows:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of ...
