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Escape From Copyright: Market Success Vs. Statutory Failure In The Protection Of Expressive Works, Tom W. Bell
Escape From Copyright: Market Success Vs. Statutory Failure In The Protection Of Expressive Works, Tom W. Bell
Tom W. Bell
Copyright law, originally excused as a necessary evil, threatens now to become an inescapable burden. Because state and common law rights seemed inadequate to protect expressive works from unrestricted copying, the Founders expressly authorized federal copyright legislation. Lawmakers have read that constitutional mandate liberally. Each new version of the Copyright Act has embodied longer, broader, and more powerful legal protections. Meanwhile, private initiatives have developed increasingly effective means of safeguarding copyrighted works. Alarmed that these dual trends benefit copyright owners at too great an expense to the public interest, many commentators argue that the Copyright Act should limit and preempt …
Libraries In A Digital And Aggressively Copyrighted World: Retaining Patron Access Through Changing Technologies, Ann Bartow
Ann Bartow
This essay asks the reader to consider the effects that copyright laws and policies, when filtered through the digital prism and bundled with restrictive contract terms, will have on library patrons. It further implores the reader to consider the broad benefits to library patrons of a statutorily guaranteed right to library use of copyrighted materials in any form.