The Concept of Controlled Digital Lending: Possibilities of Application in Croatian Libraries

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between recommendations international library communities and modern legislative framework in Republic Croatia on issues copyright related rights regarding libraries e-lending. In 2021, a new Copyright Related Rights Act entered into force Croatia, recent years, especially context COVID-19 pandemic, more attention has been paid literature concept so-called Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) which helps fulfil mission supporting research, education participation cultural life within limits existing laws. CDL allows circulate digitized title instead physical copy, provided that loan must take place controlled manner: may contain as many copies legally acquired. As concept, an interesting suitable solution for uninterrupted provision services cases extraordinary circumstances such pandemic. Given its roots American legal system significantly different from European copyright, IFLA Statement e-books (IFLA digital lending) published June 2021 recommends considering application national legislation, so will present position community lending expressed Declaration consider possibilities e-lending copying printed books according general contemporary Croatian legislation.