Comments on: Buckle up for the new year https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/buckle-up-for-the-new-year.html What's happening to your library? Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:36:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Gareth Osler (@LibraryWeb) https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/buckle-up-for-the-new-year.html#comment-5602 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:28:34 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=3668#comment-5602 If I can add to e-books and the New Year – the question at the moment I think is will new copyright legislation proposed be sufficient to allow libraries to buy, convert to a suitable format, and lend e-books:

Consumers given more copyright freedom
http://news.bis.gov.uk/Press-Releases/Consumers-given-more-copyright-freedom-68542.aspx

UK copyright laws to be freed up and parody laws relaxed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/20/uk-copyright-law-parody-relaxed

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