Copyright Questions and Answers for Information by Laura Gasaway,Laura N. Gasaway

Copyright legislation is a severe factor for authors, librarians, publishers, and knowledge proprietors. it's also a fancy region, with many colors of grey. Librarians continuously have to search solutions to questions starting from the replica of copyrighted works for library clients, during the functionality of audiovisual works, to the digitization and show of safe works on library web pages. This e-book offers up-to-date types of the author”s copyright columns released in opposed to the Grain, the top magazine in acquisitions librarianship because the past due Nineteen Nineties. it's the first quantity within the sequence Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and knowledge Sciences. the purpose of the Charleston Insights sequence is to target very important issues in library and knowledge technology, featuring the problems in a comparatively jargon-free method that's available to every kind of data pros, together with librarians, publishers, and owners, and this objective shapes the pragmatic and available tone of the book.

The quantity is gifted in question-and-answer structure. The questions are actual, submitted by way of librarians, educators, and different info pros who've attended the author”s copyright legislations workshops and shows or submitted them to her by way of e mail or mobile. the writer has chosen the questions and solutions that experience common applicability. She has then prepared them into logical chapters, each one prefaced by way of a brief advent to the subject. since it is written in an obtainable and transparent sort, readers will want to overview the total paintings or they could simply entry specific chapters or maybe particular questions as they wish them. the amount comprises an index to facilitate reference use.