Aslib Proceedings: Volume 35 Issue 11
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Interpretation of copyright law—looking especially at the situation created by the new technology
Denis de FreitasThe underlying concern of copyright is with communication; the purpose of the copyright system as it exists today is to stimulate those who have something to communicate—ideas…
‘Public domain’ software
Ray Templeton‘Public Domain’, in its clearly defined legal sense, is a phrase which is used to describe an item, usually a book or a play, which is no longer copyright, i.e. when the author of…
Copyright and computer software: the publishers' view
John DaviesThe Publishers Association has been monitoring developments in new technology as they affect publishing over a period of years. The central forum for discussions has been the…
Photocopying and licensing: the publishers' view
Kenneth PinnockHistory does not repeat itself, but it sometimes needs to be repeated. What I shall attempt in this paper is to explain what publishers think about the question of copying and…
Reprography and copyright with particular reference to inter‐library lending activities—a view from the BLLD
D.N. WoodThe British Library Lending Division has been involved in the copyright debate for some time. The Division comes up against copyright issues in a number of areas of…