Digital content creation and copyright issues
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify the modes of digital content creation for digital libraries and discuss the associated copyright issues with the types of digital content.
Design/methodology/approach
Prevalent copyright laws in India in the context of digital content have been studied and issues related to specific types of digital content have been discussed.
Findings
In addition to two known types of digital content, namely born digital and turned digital, a third type, gained digital has been delineated. It is found that extant copyright laws, particularly in India, allow scope for forming opinions with regard to digital content thereby giving room for insecurity for digital content creators.
Research limitations/implications
Copyright laws in the context of World Intellectual Property Organization and India only have been discussed.
Practical implications
The paper will be useful to digital content creators and digital library managers/administrators to understand copyright issues relevant to the digital library.
Originality/value
The classification of digital libraries based on content as has been delineated in this paper is an original work and has reported for the first time. The linking of digital content with the copyright issues makes it useful.
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Citation
Mahesh, G. and Mittal, R. (2009), "Digital content creation and copyright issues", The Electronic Library, Vol. 27 No. 4, pp. 676-683. https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470910979615
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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