LIBER has joined more than 50 library, archive and research institutions from countries across the European Union and internationally in signing a letter which asks the European Union to engage constructively in text-based discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on copyright exceptions for libraries and archives. The letter highlights the copyright challenges preventing international…
LIBER has signed a statement supporting immediate open access to research articles. The text of the statement is as follows: As organizations committed to the principle that access to information advances discovery, accelerates innovation and improves education, we endorse the policies and practices that enable Open Access – immediate, barrier free access to and reuse…
Today, LIBER is pleased to present its new logo and a redesigned website. It’s the product of months of work by the LIBER Office, our Website Taskforce and the Advocacy & Communications Steering Committee. We’re proud of the result, and hope you also like it. Our goal is to make it easier for you to find,…
Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning May 3, 2014, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment. Library and…
The closing date for nominations for vacancies on the LIBER Executive Board is Friday 19 June 2014. If you are interested in standing for appointment, please make sure that you send your completed nomination form by that date. Appointments to the following vacancies on the LIBER Executive Board will be made at the Meeting of…
The following is the text of the presentation on cross border issues in digital presentation made by Barbara Szczepanska of EiFL, also a member of the LIBER Copyright Working Group at the IFLA side event at SCCR27 at WIPO in Geneva. I will talk about digital preservation and shared infrastructures for preservation. Digital preservation is a…
At a side event at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), LIBER President, Dr. Paul Ayris outlined the cross border copyright and licencing issues faced by research libraries. The event was titled Information Without Borders: libraries and archives in a global information ecosystem and was organised by the International Federation of Library Associations…
Thank you Mr. Chairman. I am speaking on behalf of all the library and archive NGOs on the issue of orphan works and out of commerce works. Libraries have embarked upon digitisation projects of public domain items in their collections since the 1990s. However finding legal mechanisms to digitise post 1874 published analogue materials that…
SSCR27 is being held all this week at WIPO in Geneva. Limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives are tabled for discussion and IFLA has being working towards the proposal of a treaty for libraries and archives. LIBER has joined the meeting as an ad-hoc observer. LIBER’s first opportunity to make an intervention was on…
Register now for the RECODE workshop at LIBER2014. The workshop takes place on July 1st, ahead of the LIBER 43rd Annual Conference in Riga. Institutional support for open access to research data is the theme of this RECODE workshop in which we aim to develop a set of policy recommendations that will provide support for…
LIBER is pleased to reveal the programme and Keynote Speakers for its 2014 Annual Conference, to be held in the National Library of Lativa. This year’s programme includes workshops on Copyright and Horizon 2020 and a panel discussion on Research Libraries in the 2020 Information Landscape. In total, more than 30 speakers will cover a…
On the foot of an invitation from the Chair of the IFLA Copyright & Legal Matters (CLM) Committee, Victoria Owen, members of the LIBER Copyright Working Group attended the IFLA CLM midterm meeting on the 10th and 11th of April in the Hague. The LIBER Copyright Working Goup was represented at the CLM Meeting by…
