Copyright Literacy and Copyright Education for Information Professionals

Copyright Literacy of Librarians in France

Copyright Academy of Management Learning and Education

Under tremendous pressure to grow, the decision makers for many firms pursue a variety of growth paths for their organizations including internal development, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A's). Despite significant investments and efforts, the outcome of many of these endeavors is dismal-around 70% of M&A's fail and, though somewhat less known, the fate of the other growth strategi...

A Model for Copyright and Licensing: Elsevier's Copyright Model

With the rise of digital publishing and open access it has become increasingly important for publishers to store information about ownership and licensing of published works in a robust way. In a fast moving environment Elsevier, a leading science publisher, recognizes the importance of sound models underlying its data. In this paper, we describe a data model for copyright and licensing used by...

Copyright in the networked world: gray copyright

Purpose – This paper uses an inductive approach to define “gray copyright.” It is needed to describe those situations in which the practical degree of copyright protection can best be measured in shades of risk rather than in simple terms of black and white. Design/methodology/approach – Two methods are used. One is an inductive definition builds up the term’s meaning example by example and lay...

Copyright Conundrum Liability of ISPs for Online Copyright Infringement

As digital rights holders become increasingly proactive in asserting their rights against infringers, Internet service providers (“ISPs”) are more frequently becoming embroiled in online copyright infringement disputes. ISPs have, in turn, become increasingly concerned about their potential exposure to liability for acts of copyright infringement committed by their subscribers using the ISPs' f...