The problems that the great developments in digital information and the Internet are creating for copyright may be … ECMS) that help protect it. These two approaches – legal and technological – interact, as the new copyright laws protect … have regulated this area to date, the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the European Directive and the new Australian …

copyright ownership in research papers by universities, academics, and publishers by drawing on the literature, a survey of 542 … academic authors and an analysis of 80 journal publisher copyright transfer agreements. The paper concludes that self …‐archiving is not best supported by copyright transfer to publishers. It recommends that universities assert their interest in …

materials required by different universities using the service was varied as was the copyright fee paid to rights holders for … authors conclude that as a whole this service is inefficient. Specific elements of the service, e.g. the copyright clearance …

This paper considers whether copyright has a future in an electronic environment. A number of issues face copyright … EU Database Directive and the EU Draft Directive on Copyright, are considered. It is concluded that copyright is unlikely … counterproductive. Innovative thinking and ideas are necessary, together with increased owner‐user co‐operation, if copyright is to …