Study on the Legal Aspects of the Digitalization of Libraries

IPI prepared an extensive Study on the Legal Aspects of the Digitalization of Libraries for the National and University Library and dLib.si.

On the basis of the study the National and University Library will prepare a preposition of the amendment of the Copyright and Related Rights Act.

In the conclusion the study offers recommendations for the amendment of the Copyright and Related Rights Act in accordance with the current international and European legislation as well as the optimization of the current operating conditions of dLib.si.

It includes, amongst others, a comparative overview of the regulation of limitations and exceptions of copyright for libraries and archives in selected countries (prepared on the basis of WIPO’s “Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives”), a special review of the problem of orphan works and works whose workload is exhausted as well as a detailed analysis of extended collective management.