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The advent of Internet and digital media has added more complications to the already complex copyright laws. This paper will first summarize the history of copyright laws in the United States and Europe. It will then analyze and compare the digital copyright laws as they are applied in higher education in the United States and major countries in Europe.
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Congleton, R.J., Yang, S.Q. (2011). A Comparative Study of Academic Digital Copyright in the United States and Europe. In: Gradmann, S., Borri, F., Meghini, C., Schuldt, H. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_23
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