The Digital Dilemma
The Digital Dilemma

Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure

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Published: 2000-01-21

Total Pages: 368

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The ease of modifying or copying digitized material and the proliferation of computer networking have raised fundamental questions about copyright and patent - intellectual property protections rooted in the US Constitution. Hailed for quick and convenient access to a world of materialţhe Internet also poses serious economic issues for those who create and market that material. If people can so easily send music on the Internet for freef̧or examplew̧ho will pay for music?

Foundations of Library and Information Science
Foundations of Library and Information Science

Author: Richard Rubin

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Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555705183

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The information infrastructure: libraries in context -- Information science: a service perspective -- Redefining the library: the impacts and implications of technological change -- Information policy: stakeholders and agendas -- Information policy as library policy: intellectual freedom -- Information organization: issues and techniques -- From past to present: the library's mission and its values -- Ethics and standards: professional practices in library and information science -- The library as institution: an organizational view -- Librarianship: an evolving profession -- Appendices.