Driving UK Research – Is copyright a help or a hindrance?
Driving UK Research. Is copyright a help or a hindrance? is a booklet collated by the British Library that aims at bringing together a range of views from leading researchers on how the framework for intellectual property needs reviewing for the digital age.
The collection of essays is intended to contribute practical examples of how copyright affects the UK research community in the ongoing debate on the UK intellectual property framework.
WIPO publishes "Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain"
WIPO has released the English version of “Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain”. Other language versions will be made available in due course.
Highlights of Europeana v1.0 and other projects in the Europeana Group
Europeana v1.0 recently passed its formal mid-term review. The Commission’s specialists commented on how much had been achieved across such a complex set of tasks in a short time. See the latest highlights on political stakeholders, end-user audience, content providers, metadata, code, IPR and business model and value proposition at http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/documents.
Feedback Questionnaire 39th LIBER Annual Conference 2010
Deadline for feedback closes on 31 August 2010!
LIBER 39th Annual Conference 2010
Aarhus State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark
29 June - 2 July 2010
'Re-inventing the Library. The Challenges of the new Information Environment'
________________________________________________
CONFERENCE FEEDBACK
Thank you for participating in the 39th LIBER Annual Conference hosted by the Aarhus State and University Library, Denmark.
LIBER announces changes to its Executive Board
The following appointments to the LIBER Executive Board were made at the Meeting of Participants held in Aarhus State and University Library on Thursday 1 July 2010:
- President, Dr Paul Ayris, UCL (University College London), London, UK
- Vice-President, Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, National Library of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
- Treasurer, Drs Bas Savenije, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands
In addition, the following were appointed Board Members by the Meeting of Participants:
