[A2k] FW: British Academy set to criticise UK copyright laws

[Barbara Stratton]

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Dear all

FYI (thanks to Paul Pedley).

See also the British Academy's own press release at http://www.britac.ac.uk=
/news/release.asp?Newsid=3D219

Barbara

Barbara Stratton
Senior Adviser, Copyright, CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Librarians and=
 Information Professionals
Secretary to LACA: the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance

CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0500 Fax: +44 (0)20 7255 0501 Textphone: +44 (0)20 7255=
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Pedley
Sent: 13 September 2006 13:58
To: Barbara Stratton
Subject: British Academy set to criticise UK copyright laws

IPWorldonline News, September 2006
British Academy set to criticise UK copyright laws
United Kingdom
Wednesday 13th September
A report from the British Academy that is to be launched on the 18th Septem=
ber is expected to criticise the UK copyright system.
The Academy, which is the national academy for the humanities and the socia=
l sciences, will express fears that the copyright system may be impeding ra=
ther than stimulating the production of new ideas and new scholarships in t=
he humanities and social sciences sectors.
The report claims that it is the nature of creative activity and scholarshi=
p to build on what has gone before.
Under current UK law exemptions are provided from copyright, such as; purpo=
ses of private study and non-commercial research as well as criticism and r=
eview.
The report will also call on the government to clarify this situation. "The=
re is... little clarity about the precise scope of these exemptions, and an=
 absence of case law," said John Kay, the chair of the Working Group which =
oversaw the review.