Comparative analysis of the current state of copyright law regarding the possibility for libraries to digitise and lend books under national and European law.
The study was conducted by Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation in partnership with the Future Law Lab flagship project within the Priority Research Area Society of the Future under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.
The reports provides a comparative analysis of the current state of copyright law regarding the possibility for libraries to digitise and lend books under national and European law, covering all EU Member States and a selection of Council of Europe Member States. Based on the findings the study will consider ways to facilitate the provision of Secure Digital Lending (SDL) by libraries within the norms of copyright law.
The main goal of the research is to help understand better the legal standing of digitisation and lending under European law, to identify Member States in which such lending may already be legal without any legislative changes, where it could be legalised through national legislative changes and where, if applicable, EU-level legislative changes would be required.
The publication is issued as part of the Knowledge Rights 21 project, funded by Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
Authors:
Gliściński, Konrad
Laskowska-Litak, Ewa
Strycharz, Katarzyna
Drabczyk, Maria
Full report: https://zenodo.org/records/10960187