CD-ROM Licensing and Copyright Issues for Libraries
Information Today (Publisher)
Published on 15. October 1990
Book
Hardback
135 pages
978-0-88736-701-4 (ISBN)
Description
The question of licensing and leasing CD-ROM products is a controversial one. Producers maintain that they only lease the data on the discs, while librarians object to the idea of paying sometimes thousands of pounds for products which are only temporarily theirs. In this book librarians, vendors and other industry spokespersons provide a discussion of the issues involved in the licensing and leasing of CD-ROM products. A number of issues are reviewed providing an overview of the day-to-day problems that licensing and leasing agreements can generate, and it gives practical advice on resolving purchase and use restrictions on a local basis. A discussion of the present day context in which copyright law is applied to new technology by the courts is given. The book also examines the vendor's perspective, addressing the problem of database ownership offering an industry-wide overview of the implications of campus-wide local area networks on licensing and leasing agreements. Finally a proposed resolution to the several legal issues addressed throughout the book is discussed.
The question of licensing and leasing CD-ROM products is a controversial one. Producers maintain that they only lease the data on the discs, while librarians object to the idea of paying sometimes thousands of pounds for products which are only temporarily theirs. In this book librarians, vendors and other industry spokespersons provide a discussion of the issues involved in the licensing and leasing of CD-ROM products. A number of issues are reviewed providing an overview of the day-to-day problems that licensing and leasing agreements can generate, and it gives practical advice on resolving purchase and use restrictions on a local basis. A discussion of the present day context in which copyright law is applied to new technology by the courts is given. The book also examines the vendor's perspective, addressing the problem of database ownership offering an industry-wide overview of the implications of campus-wide local area networks on licensing and leasing agreements. Finally a proposed resolution to the several legal issues addressed throughout the book is discussed.
The question of licensing and leasing CD-ROM products is a controversial one. Producers maintain that they only lease the data on the discs, while librarians object to the idea of paying sometimes thousands of pounds for products which are only temporarily theirs. In this book librarians, vendors and other industry spokespersons provide a discussion of the issues involved in the licensing and leasing of CD-ROM products. A number of issues are reviewed providing an overview of the day-to-day problems that licensing and leasing agreements can generate, and it gives practical advice on resolving purchase and use restrictions on a local basis. A discussion of the present day context in which copyright law is applied to new technology by the courts is given. The book also examines the vendor's perspective, addressing the problem of database ownership offering an industry-wide overview of the implications of campus-wide local area networks on licensing and leasing agreements. Finally a proposed resolution to the several legal issues addressed throughout the book is discussed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
forms
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-88736-701-4 (9780887367014)
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Content
CD-ROMs, licences and librarians; recent developments in Copyright Law for new information technologies; CD-ROM licensing issues; site licensing policies and CD-ROM networks in libraries; the impact of legal issues on the acceptance of CD-ROM in the marketplace.