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A Comparative Study of Academic Digital Copyright in the United States and Europe

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The advent of Internet and digital media has added more complications to the already complex copyright laws. This paper will first summarize the history of copyright laws in the United States and Europe. It will then analyze and compare the digital copyright laws as they are applied in higher education in the United States and major countries in Europe.

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  1. Moore Library, Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 08648, U.S.A.

    Robert J. Congleton & Sharon Q. Yang

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  1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany

    Stefan Gradmann

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Francesca Borri

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto della Scienza e delle Tecnologie della Informazione, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Carlo Meghini

  4. Databases and Information Systems Group, University of Basel, Bernoullistr. 16, 5056, Basel, Switzerland

    Heiko Schuldt

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Congleton, R.J., Yang, S.Q. (2011). A Comparative Study of Academic Digital Copyright in the United States and Europe. In: Gradmann, S., Borri, F., Meghini, C., Schuldt, H. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_23

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