Press Release: The Right to E-Read

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Today, EBLIDA officially releases its latest position paper “The Right to E-Read”.

This paper, successor to the EBLIDA paper “E-Publishing and the Challenges for Libraries”, focuses on the issue of e-books and their availability through libraries.

The current developments in the e-books market are dramatically changing the way libraries are working. As well as giving access to a wide range of content from scientific to entertainment literature in all tangible formats (books, CDs, DVDs), since the 1990’s libraries have provided access to content in electronic formats, firstly for journals and now e-books. Initially these developments occurred mainly in academic libraries but nowadays public libraries are very much involved as well. Libraries are in the midst of a transition from managing physical collections that they own to managing connections to e-content provided and owned by others (…) »

source > eblida.org, 5 juin 2014

• Mots-clés : 
• Bibliothèque,
• Droit,
• Droit d'auteur,
• E-book,
• Eblida,
• Exception au droit d'auteur,
• Licence