Por una crítica al sistema del copyright y al rol de policías del copyright de los bibliotecarios
| Main Author: | Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín |
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| Format: | Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | es |
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Crítica Bibliotecológica: Revista de las Ciencias de la Información Documental
, 2009
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/13861/1/CB.v2.n1.Articulo2.zmmm.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/13861/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This paper, entitled: “For a critique of the copyright system and of the role of copyright police as it affects librarians,” tracks the origins of the copyright system from the England of the 16th century as a monarchical instrument for the commercial monopoly of the nascent publishing industry, and above all as an organism of the government for the systematic censorship and control of printing and publishing against citizens. It clarifies the difference between copyright and the moral rights of authors, where the latter are hampered from usufructing their own right. The idea that librarians adopt a role of police of copyright in benefit of company owners of copyright versus the role of a librarian affirming the adoption of a policy in benefit of offering free, and unhampered access to information recorded in documents in all the institutions of documental information, is taken from the debates of the Copy/South Research Group from its first workshop held in Canterbury, Kent, England in 2005, cf. THE COPY/SOUTH DOSSIER: Issues in the Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Copyright in the Global South (May 2006), attended by the author and 22 other critical academics from various disciplines, among them 6 more librarians. It gives examples of how various librarians adopt a role of police of copyright contrasted with the librarian role of giving free access to information recorded in documents. It takes a position in favour of the role of a librarian to offer free and unhampered access to information and against the role of police, and it invites the worldwide librarianship community to declare itself as opposed to such a police role.