[Foundation-l] Fwd: [BP] BRITISH LIBRARY SAYS COPYRIGHT LAW NEEDS UPDATING

[Jonathan Leybovich]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> 
> 
> The British Library has called for a wide-scale revision of existing
> copyright law, which, it said, inadequately addresses digital content,
> putting too much control into the hands of content producers and
> owners.

It would be nice if the British Library heeded its own advice and 
adopted similarly liberal rules toward the content metadata it collects 
in its capacity as cataloger as that which it is trying to foist upon 
content creators:

"Whilst there should be no technical difficulties in accessing the CURL 
database for record retrieval (provided the library has internet 
access), there are some issues surrounding re-use of records. Royalty or 
licence fees are paid to some record suppliers (British Library, SLS), 
which may rise if the number of records downloaded from the database 
increases..."
http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects/db6.htm