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LACA wants more!

The first round of consultation on recommendations in Andrew Gowers ? December 2006 report on intellectual property law (including copyright) has concluded with the Libraries and Copyright Alliance (LACA) arguing that there should be wider exceptions.

LACA argued that the following exceptions should be introduced:

• For extension of educational exceptions to permit the copying of materials for distance learning and the copying of all kinds of copyright work for educational purposes.
• For extension of fair dealing for the purposes of non commercial research and private study to cover all kinds of work
• That exceptions should apply, wherever possible , equally in the digital and analogue environments
• For extension of the preservation exception, which permits libraries and archives to make preservation copies

LACA's full response is available online.

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).