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> The Library Association (UK) today led representatives of the library, > information, education and archive professions in speaking out for > consumers, as a crucial copyright debate began in the European Parliament > in Strasbourg. If the European Directive on Copyright in the Information > Society is adopted in its proposed form, librarians and educators foresee > a future where nothing can be looked at, read, used or copied without > permission or additional payments. > > The driving force behind the Copyright Directive is a tightening of the > law to combat music piracy on the Internet. Copying and using copyright > works undertaken by libraries, archives and educational institutions have > nothing to do with assisting music piracy but are being caught up in this > net. The traditional fair practice exceptions of copying for research or > private study are under threat by amendments to the Directive. > > Ross Shimmon, Chief Executive of The Library Association, has been > interviewed on the professions' concerns by Channel 4 News for its 7.00 > p.m. broadcast this evening. > > Further information is available in a Press Release on our Web site: > > http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/press_desk/199906.html > > Alan Cooper > The Library Association > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%