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A Copyright Gambit : On the Need for Exclusive Rights in Digitised Versions of Public Domain Textual Materials in Europe / by Sunimal Mendis
(Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition. ISSN:21997470 ; 11)

Publisher	(Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2019
Edition	1st ed. 2019.
Authors	*Mendis, Sunimal author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00169877		Springer Law and Criminology eBooks (電子ブック)	9783662594544

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XV, 294 p. 5 illus : online resource
Notes	Introduction -- Objectives and methodology -- An overview of business models currently in use -- Is there a need to preserve exclusivitiy over digitised versions? -- A conceptual basis for justifying the grant of an exclusive right -- Adequacy and suitability of existing protection mechanisms -- Can a digitised version obtain copyright protection within the EU? -- Why are related rights the best mechanism? -- The proposed model -- Conclusion -- Annex -- Bibliography European memory institutions are repositories of a wealth of rare documents that record public domain content. These documents are often stored in ‘dark-archives’ to which members of the public are granted limited access, resulting in the public domain content recorded therein being relegated to a form of ‘forgotten-knowledge’. Digitisation offers a means by which such public domain content can be made speedily and easily accessible to users around the world. For this reason, it has been hailed as the harbinger of a new ‘digital renaissance’. This book examines the topical issue of the need to preserve exclusivity over digitised versions of rare documents recording public domain content. Based on data gathered through an empirical survey of digitisation projects undertaken by fourteen memory institutions in five European Union Member States, it argues for the introduction of exclusive rights in digitised versions of rare documents recording public domain textual content as a means of incentivising private-sector investment in the digitisation process. It concludes by presenting a detailed proposal for a European Union Regulation that would grant memory institutions a limited-term related right in digitised versions of rare documents held in their collections subject to stringent exceptions and limitations that are designed to safeguard user interests. HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59454-4
Subjects	LCSH:Information technology—Law and legislation LCSH:Mass media—Law and legislation LCSH:Law—Europe FREE:IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property FREE:European Law
Classification	LCC:K4240-4343 DC23:343.099
ID	8000062768
ISBN	9783662594544