November 26th, 2008

Librarians Take The Copyright Battleground In Developing Countries

By William New, Intellectual Property Watch

Creativity may not be the first thing that comes to mind when travelling through the kilometres of mostly grey, Soviet-era cement-block buildings outlying the capital of Moldova, often referred to as Europe’s poorest state...

Exceptions and limitation have been shown to provide as much if not more contribution to economies, the meeting was told by several speakers. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation said an “enormous amount” of economic activity relies on exceptions to copyright, such as technology providers and online businesses like auction site eBay and search engine Google.

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