Section 108 Report: Updating Libraries Rights in the Digital Era
The Section 108 Study Group has issued its report. The study group, chartered in 2005 to advise on how to update the Copyright Act's exception for libraries and archives in the digital age. Among other things, the report recommends that the section 108 exception be extended to museums, that libraries be permitted to outsource their rights to third parties under certain circumstances, and that a number of provisions be added to permit granting libraries and archives broader rights to preserve information and protect fragile works. It's clear that this report was drafted with the spectre of the Google Print and other digitization projects in the background.
