Students, It’s 2010! So Let’s Go Back to Stone Age!
Wait a minute! This heading makes no sense? Sadly it does. In late November a German court delivered a verdict that is interesting enough to post on an international site, because it is about copyright, which is no doubt an international issue.
The court said, that students and scientists are not allowed to digitally copy or print out parts of the digital media library of the university Darmstadt.
Photographer: Michelle Meiklejohn - FreeDigitalPhotos.net
However, students and scientists, that need to quote from those digital books for their work, are allowed to write off parts with pen and paper. Ding! Ding!
Photographer: Simon Howden - freedigitalphotos.net
The initiator of all this is the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.
Have a nice day
Colorsync (Polignostix)
All I say is: /facepalm
Hi, I have an updated webliography on ‘The Battle of Building Library’s Digital Collection,’ linking your article, as well.
Will appreciate receiving your comments. Digital Libraries
We’ll get some guy in an overcoat and a hidden video camera to lurk around there.
Hehe. By the way, update: The university simply closed down the digital library. …
We’ll just have to digitally copy stuff at home off of the internet. S!