{"id":1274,"date":"2019-04-05T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T06:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:33:34","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-12-care-about-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/04\/05\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-12-care-about-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #12: Care about Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Laws matter for libraries.<\/p>\n

They can ensure that local governments have an obligation to run a library. They can decide whether libraries can give internet access or offer services. They can determine what libraries can do with their collections.<\/p>\n

Copyright has a particular role in the last of these.<\/p>\n

The right rules are essential for libraries to support research and education, to preserve, to lend books.<\/p>\n

Clearly understanding copyright takes more than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

But as an important area for advocacy \u2013 especially if your laws now aren\u2019t good enough \u2013 so it\u2019s useful to know what the laws are.<\/p>\n

So, and in the week of the World Intellectual Property Organisation\u2019s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights<\/a>, our twelfth 10-Minute Library Advocate Exercise is to find the library provisions in your national copyright law.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, you can do this in 10 minutes, thanks to a WIPO Report<\/a>. This give an overview of what your law says about libraries. You can also look at what other countries do.<\/p>\n

Does anything stand out for you? Do you see any problems? Any opportunities?<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

See the introduction and previous posts in our 10-Minute Library Advocate<\/a> series and join the discussion in social media using the #EveryLibrarianAnAdvocate hashtag!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laws matter for libraries. They can ensure that local governments have an obligation to run a library. They can decide whether libraries can give internet access or offer services. They can determine what libraries can do with their collections. Copyright has a particular role in the last of these. The right rules are essential for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26589,26646,11,26596,219,32,26647],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-copyright4libraries","tag-everylibrariananadvocate","tag-copyright","tag-exceptions-and-limitations","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-library-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}