British Library Lends Itself To Intellectual-property Wisdom
Leader In the search for sanity in digital rights management, he suggests that the British Library leads the inquiry and report back to government. The British Library itself is built on the 200-year-old Library of the British Museum, with its principle...
[March 15, 2006, 14:35]
Campaigners Back Call For DRM Debate
News Suw Charman, executive director of The Open Rights Group, said on Wednesday that the British Library would be "an excellent facilitator" of DRM debate. An MP's suggestion that the British Library moderate the debate over digital rights management...
[March 15, 2006, 14:25]
MP: British Library Must Lead The Charge On DRM
News The chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) said on Tuesday that the British Library was well positioned to organise copyright debate as it is an independent, trustworthy institution.
[March 14, 2006, 16:25]
DRM Is Failing, MPs Told
News Appearing at a hearing conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), senior representatives from the British Library said they were frustrated that DRM is stopping librarians from giving the public long-term access to content.
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
News Schmooze: Chips Learn To Communicate
News For example, new memory technologies that use photons, nanometres and very tiny magical fairies to be able to store the contents of the British Library in your Walkman. The Schmoozer's admiration of British Telecommunications Group grows with each...
[March 1, 2002, 16:36]
Google Clashes With UK Publishers Over Digital Libraries
News Lynne Brindley, chief executive of The British Library, didn't appear surprised that Google has found itself at odds with the established print industry. There is the serious issue of the digitisation of massive library collections where the...
[June 6, 2006, 13:45]
Digital Rights And Digital Wrongs
Leader The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has been listening to those to whom DRM causes actual harm - people such as the British Library, which has a legal obligation to keep records of all publications in the UK, and the Royal National...
[February 3, 2006, 13:05]
Country Codes 'will Stay Free'
News The country codes can be found on the ISO Web site, the currency codes on the British Standards Institution site, and the language codes at the US Library of Congress site. The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) announced that it...
[October 1, 2003, 8:50]
EC To Rival Google With Massive Digital Library
News It also acknowledged that several initiatives are already under way within Europe such as the Collect Britain project in the UK which is backed by the British Library and part-funded by the National Lottery.
[October 3, 2005, 12:35]
