« Sci-Hub est à l’édition scientifique ce que Pirate Bay est à l’industrie culturelle : un moteur de recherche proposant gratuitement au téléchargement des publications payantes. Censuré une première fois avant de réapparaître sur la Toile, la controverse qu’il a suscitée ne va pas encore assez loin. (…) »
« On connaît l’affaire très américaine du singe photographe qui a défrayé la chronique depuis quelques années, mais l’antique canular du trop méconnu peintre Joachim-Raphaël Boronali revient sous les feux de l’actualité culturelle. (…) »
« The European University Association welcomes the European Commission’s (EC) 9 December Communication outlining its intentions to move towards a modern, more European copyright framework. The reform of the current legislation is urgently needed as students, researchers, educators and innovators are hampered by outdated copyright rules that have not…
« International copyright expert, Professor Kenneth D. Crews, led a webinar hosted by EIFL on 5 February 2016 on ‘Library copyright statutes around the world: trends and developments’.
Prof. Crews, author of the WIPO study on copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives (2015), set out…
« The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) representing the interests of libraries and information services as well as the users of such services throughout the world.IFLA’s Governing Board approved an updated Statement on Public Lending Right (PLR) including a new section…
« A brief assessment of the situation of libraries in Germany today as well as an overview of the German Library Association’s related positions and demands, have a look at the latest edition of our « Report on the State of Libraries ».
In addition to offering selected facts & figures,…
« Digital technologies have transformed libraries, archives and access to information. They have revolutionized the information landscape.
Libraries and archives support the work of scientists and scholars, which is increasingly collaborative, interdisciplinary and global in nature. In tandem with the expanding opportunities for search and…
« International Publishers Association (IPA) today endorsed licensing as the best way to safeguard copies of works in libraries and archives during the debate at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) (…) »
