Copyright
- Digital Libraries Initiative: Agreement between Cultural Institutions and Right Holders on Orphan Works
An agreement on copyright was signed today by libraries, archives and right holders, in the presence of Commissioner Viviane Reding. The Memorandum of Understanding on orphan works will help cultural institutions to digitise books, films and music whose authors are unknown, making them available to the public online.
- EU Weighs Copyright Law
Sites, carriers and services would have responsibility for infringment using their equipment.
Companies from across IT face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are ever used to carry illegally copied material such as music or film, according to a draft law from the European Commission supported Tuesday by a committee of the European Parliament
- Copyright hindering scholarship in the humanities and social sciences
A report from the British Academy, launched on 18 September 2006, expresses fears that the copyright system may in important respects be impeding, rather than stimulating, the production of new ideas and new scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
The main objective of the IPR-Helpdesk is to assist potential and current contractors taking part in Community funded research and technological development projects on intellectual property rights (IPR) issues. The IPR-Helpdesk advises also on Community diffusion and protection rules and other issues relating to IPR in international research projects.
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