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Hej,
Lorcan Dempsey, är en kollega vars synpunkter
och tankar alltid är intressanta och vars blogg
det finns all anledning att följa
Klipp ur: Lorcan Dempsey's weblog Weekly Digest
Dis-owning collections
October 07, 2007
<http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001446.html>
It is now conventional to make a distinction between what libraries own
(e.g. books, DVDs, ...) and what they license (e.g. e-journals).
However, we can only use 'own' in a circumscribed way. This has been
made clearer in the mass digitization projects. Libraries cannot do as
they wish with the digitized copies of copyrighted material. And we know
that in most library collections, a large part, maybe a majority part,
is still covered by copyright. What the library in fact 'owns' is the
cost of managing the physical materials and of making them available to
users. They do not 'own' the content, and are limited in what they can
do with it. In fact, they may end up licensing the very content that
they thought they owned once it has been digitized....</MTWrap>
Jan
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Jan Szczepanski
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Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek
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