The intellectual property rights towards digital environment
The intellectual property rights towards digital environment

Summary/Abstract: There are many features shared by electronic and printed book. From the perspective of organizing and valorising digital collections and libraries, the intellectual property rights take into consideration the legal aspects associated to access, copy and dissemination of documents both on physical and digital suppor. These rights include: the owner of the material resources to be digitized; the owner rights upon the digitized materials; the rights or the guaranteed permission to the services provider to make available the digital resources; the rights or the guaranteed permission to use the digital resources. The digital resources are published on websites organized or not in collections and databases. In thesesituations, the intellectual property rights and related rights take into consideration the website as a whole, regarded as na original creation; the software, the automation integrated applications in presenting and disseminating the digital resources or put at the disposal of the final users (the automation licenses used); the digital content and the legal regulations necessary between the content owner and the services providers.

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