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British Library calls for digital copyright action
News The British Library has called for a "serious updating" of current copyright law to "unambiguously" include digital content, and take technological advances into account. Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to recognise the changing...
[September 25, 2006, 13:50]
British Library lists rare books on Amazon
News The British Library has opened up its extensive bibliographic records to the Internet, adding millions of records to Amazon.co.uk's books listings. However, a book can only be sold through Amazon's site if a catalogue entry for it already exists...
[November 24, 2003, 17:00]
MP: British Library must lead the charge on DRM
News Derek Wyatt MP has called on the British Library to lead the debate on digital rights management (DRM), and present the results to government. The chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) said on Tuesday that the British...
[March 14, 2006, 16:25]
British Library plans to archive whole UK Web
Talkback I think its absolutely appalling that the British Library can ride roughshod over peoples copyright in such a fashion - by basically altering the law to allow them to do what they want with other people's web content.
[June 24, 2004, 16:46]
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]
MP: British Library must lead the charge on DRM
Talkback Wyatt's suggestion of involving the British Library as an independent intermediary is a sure fire step to setting an industry standard and making illegal content distribution a thing of the past. Finally someone is championing the need for a debate...
[March 16, 2006, 18:13]
British Library plans to archive whole UK Web
News The consortium, led by the British Library, includes the Wellcome Trust, the National Archives and the Scottish and Welsh national libraries. Richard Boulderstone, director of e-strategy at the British Library, said that all types of material will...
[June 24, 2004, 15:00]
Gates recruits British Library to push Vista...
Blog To add some gravitas and historical perspective to the launch of Vista, Gates was joined on stage by the chief executive of the British Library Lynne Brindley, who was on hand to discuss how the library is using Vista to digitise its archives.
[January 30, 2007, 10:37]
Microsoft partners with British Library
News Microsoft has signed a deal with the British Library to digitise 100,000 of its books. The software giant will use MSN Book Search to index 25 million pages of British Library content by next year, the pair announced.
[November 4, 2005, 15:25]
The British Library needs you
Blog From Monday to Wednesday this week, the British Library in St Pancras is host to a conference on the Digital Lives Research Project. The conference is the first event of its kind undertaken by the British Library which itself is responsible for the...
[February 10, 2009, 20:02]
Microsoft partners with British Library
Talkback Oh here we go, great, so half of 'my' British library is going to be accessible by one company and the other for another, and I shouldn't wonder the costs will fluctuate in the same manner - not great.
[November 4, 2005, 15:49]
The British Library's online turn-up for the books
News The British Library is bringing some of the world's rarest books online, with the intent of giving as wide an audience as possible the most accurate experience of reading the real thing. Photo credit: British Library
[July 30, 2008, 18:42]
British Library plans to archive whole UK Web
Talkback What a wonderful idea. I don't think any webmaster producing original work will object to having their contributions preserved for the future. My only worry is how will the sites be stored? CD based storage will not last that long.
[August 9, 2004, 20:42]
British Library calls for digital copyright action
Talkback This said at the same time the BL is looking to get locked into MOOX? DRM and non-free formats share some of the same threats. Few applications expected to support MOOX in the near future, actually just one.
[September 25, 2006, 16:38]
British Library plans to archive whole UK Web
Talkback This seems to be not only rather pointless, but unless they are planning to also archive every database and server side code on the web (or I am missing something) then most of these archived sites will not actually do anything.
[June 24, 2004, 17:29]
British Library enables Web search of shelves
News The search tool will allow reading room users to discover what is in stock before visiting the Library, as well as accessing book details and references on any chosen subject. We expect OPAC 97 to become one of the most important reference tools on...
[May 23, 1997, 16:45]
British Library to put more priceless images online
Talkback How can the images be copyright if they belong to the British public?
[May 12, 2005, 19:19]
British Library to put more priceless images online
Talkback Copyright belongs to all British subjects maybe?
[May 13, 2005, 21:54]
British Library lends itself to intellectual-property wisdom
Talkback Who says that the Library is lead by true librarians? Given the state of affairs around us, worldwide, one should see clearly that the best of people are often governed by the ignorant and foolish. And guess which ones are lobbied to whatever...
[March 20, 2006, 20:22]
MP: British Library must lead the charge on DRM
Talkback No, nothing should lead DRM. Just shut it down. It's blindingly simple to bypass DRM in whatever form so why waste (tax) money and time on it? Why do record companies demand a single vendor DRM solution?
[March 21, 2006, 22:55]
