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Intellectual Property (IP)
is a bundle of rights that protects applications of ideas and information
that have commercial value. IP rights give creators certain exclusive
rights over the knowledge and information they create (e.g. the
text of a book) to prevent others using it without permission. The
four most common forms of IP are patents, copyright, designs and
trade marks. (Definition from the Gowers Review, December 2006)
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British Library Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley DBE,
speaking at an Intellectual Property Seminar, chaired by Ed Vaizey
Shadow Minister for Culture, stated: 'We are in danger of an escalating
arms race between geeks/hackers and tech savvy young people and
businesses focussed on lock-down – the music industry has
shown the difficulties of DRM based strategies. Let’s put
equal imagination in to workable new business models! And we should
be aware of trends towards more open innovation models – in
software standards, in publishing, in education courseware and in
source code. The reward/innovation balance is not a straightforward
one.'
The British Library is concerned that the
shift from print to digital publishing is undermining the traditional
balance at the heart of copyright and could make it harder for researchers
to access and use information, and undermine innovation, research
and heritage in the UK.
Listen to the debate 'Golden Opportunity or Digital
Black Hole?', 5 May 2009, (MP3, 30.5 MB) with Dame Lynne
Brindley, David Lammy MP, Torin Douglas, Dr Annette Davison, Simon
Tanner and Rod Bristow Read
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Listen to the debate 'Authors and Publishers in the
Digital Age', 2 April 2008 (MP3, 68.3 MB) |
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