[A2k] Users’ rights: making copyright wor k for libraries

[Teresa Hackett (eIFL)]

FYI

IFLA World Library and Information Congress: "Libraries without borders:
Navigating towards global understanding", 10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada

The full programme is here:
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/Programme2008.htm

Teresa
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Thursday 14 August 2008

SI – Copyright and other Legal Matters
Users’ rights: making copyright work for libraries

*Copyright exceptions and limitations for libraries: an elusive quest?
       KENNETH CREWS (Columbia University, New York City, USA)

*Libraries in the digital age: minimum copyright provisions
       TERESA HACKETT (eIFL, Ireland)

*Canada, copyright and the common good
       MARK HASLETT (University of Waterloo, Canada)

*Fair use is not civil disobedience: a report on library exceptions from
the front lines of the 108 Study Group
       JAMES NEAL (Columbia University, New York, USA)

*The Gowers review: extending the UK’s copyright exceptions
       BARBARA STRATTON (CILIP, London, UK)


Monday 11 August 2008

SI – Copyright and other Legal Matters with FAIFE
Barriers of access to government information

*Crown Copyright and the privatization of government information
       CHABRIOL COLEBATCH (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)

*Electronic publication: problems of archiving and access to archived
information, including legal deposit, data protection and related topics
       HARALD VON HIELMCRONE (Statsbiblioteket, Aarhus, Denmark)

*The impact of copyright on access to public information in African
countries: a perspective from Uganda and South Africa
       DENISE NICHOLSON (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa) and DICK KAWOOYA (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)

*Freedom of information legislation: what can we learn from countries
with such laws?
       MARY ALICE BAISH (American Association of Law Libraries,
Washington, USA)