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- Copyright law provisions have traditionally protected reproduction of materials for the purposes of research and teaching in universities and libraries through library exceptions and the fair use provisions. Technological developments, however, have introduced yet easier ways for reproducing information, making the owners of copyrightable material more sensitive to reproduction technologies. There is a fervor of activity at the international level, through international treaties and European Union directives, calling for higher levels of protection of intellectual property rights, some of which may be creating new intellec-tual property rights. Licensing of information resources, either by indi-vidual libraries or through consortial arrangements, has emerged as a new form of purchasing access to information resources, oftentimes aim-ing at circumventing the fair use and library provisions that copyright legislation has traditionally offered. Library associations in the US have drafted a set of principles that librarians should consider when entering licensing negotiations. I will briefly examine these licensing principles and discuss the actions that library organizations such as the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the American Library Association (ALA), and other organizations, as well as, the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) have taken.
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