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Copyright Literacy in Finnish Libraries, Archives and Museums

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Copyright literacy in Finnish libraries, archives, and museums was studied by a web survey as part of a multinational research. The study focused on the awareness concerning national and international copyright legislation and institutions, regulations concerning different aspects of copyright, and sources of copyright information that the respondents would use. 156 completed questionnaires were returned, representing different kinds of memory institutions. The informants were mostly experienced information professionals who were moderately well aware of national legislation and copyright institutions, whereas they were less familiar with respective international regulations. Copyright issues are already and will be in the future even more relevant part of information professional’s expertise and this is emphasized by the need to educate students in this respect.

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Acknowledgments

The Survey Instrument is result from the research activities in the frame of research project “Copyright Policies of libraries and other cultural institutions”, financed by National Scientific Fund of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, Youth and Science, Contract № DFNI-К01/0002-21.11.2012 and headed by Tania Todorova from State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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  1. Faculty of Humanities/Information Studies, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, Oulu, Finland

    Terttu Kortelainen

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Kortelainen, T. (2015). Copyright Literacy in Finnish Libraries, Archives and Museums. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_21

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