Copyright, Libraries and the Digital Age
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Date
2003-02
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
The legal copyrights of inventions and innovations, that is, Intellectual Property Rights
(IPRs) as under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have now, emerged as the driving
force behind the intellectual growth and business development. In fact it is even touted
now that global economic growth will be dictated to by those holding the copyrights of
the inventions. In this context the paper describes, what is copyright, what are its
objectives, what does infringment of copyrights means to libraries. Paper also present the
important of copyrights in the digital age and finally lists IFLA’s position on this subject.
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Copyright, Libraries, Digital Age, Intellectual Property Rights