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What are the internationally accepted legal aspects of scanning library books and making them available for different services?
What are the internationally accepted legal aspects of scanning library books and making them available through different services?
National laws differ, but what are the acceptable worldwide legal ...
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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 ...
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What changes have academic libraries made in response to the ARL's 'Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries'?
ARL recently published the "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries" which they describe as:
a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to ...
