Copyright Clearances, Part 1: Risk Analysis
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- Subject: Copyright Clearances, Part 1: Risk Analysis
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:22:10 -0500
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Monday, January 09, 2006 | K. Matthew Dames' 'CopyCense' blog
Copyright Clearances, Part 1: Risk Analysis
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commentary by K. Matthew Dames
Do you have any copy rights left?
That's a reasonable question for information professionals to ask, since
the legislative, business, and political environments of the last decade
have been so severely pro-copyright. Beginning in the 1990s, the scope
of copyright has expanded with the growth of digital technologies.
Copyright's expansion has been particularly acute since 1998, when
President Clinton signed into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA).
In the current environment, it is easy for information professionals to
think that any use of copyrighted works is illegal unless it is
explicitly sanctioned by a license, release, or other written agreement.
Fortunately, current copyright law says otherwise.
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