Photocopying, Libraries and the Copyright Law of the United Kingdom

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
W. R. Cornish
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Similar Process ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Novel Technology ◽  
New Form

The present Copyright Act of the United Kingdom was passed in 1956, when modern photocopying was in its comparative infancy. The lusty cries of the novel technology were echoed in the Act. For instance, publishers secured a new form of copyright -in the typographical arrangement of an edition– which was protected against unauthorised reproduction by any photographic or similar process for 25 years from first publication of the edition. The Act also attempted to strike a balance over photocopying and similar practices. But the result was a cautious compromise which simply has not worked.

scholarly journals Comparative Study on Copyright Exception for Teaching Purposes: Australia, Malaysia and the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratnaria Wahid ◽  
Ida Madieha Abdul Ghani Azmi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Public Access ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Copyright Exception ◽  
Materials Used

While education is considered a basic human right, the copyright system however seems to hamper public access to information and knowledge. This is especially so when information that largely comes from developed countries are used as commodities that have to be bought by developing countries. This paper compares the international and national laws in Malaysia, United Kingdom and Australia on the copyright exceptions to materials used for teaching purposes. It analyzes the different ways countries manage and balance between copyright owners and copyright users’ interest and shows that in many circumstances, copyright owners are over-protected by national copyright systems although this is not required by international copyright law. This paper also shows that international treaties governing copyright law do allow some flexibility for member countries to implement copyright systems based on their own needs and circumstances but such opportunity is not fully utilized by member countries for the benefit of the public.  

scholarly journals Ambiguous agency in the vulnerable trafficked body: reading Sanusi’s Eyo and Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Dina Ligaga
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
African Women ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
Sex Slave

The narrativization of the trafficked body in the novels of Abidemi Sanusi and Chika Unigwe allows for a contemplation of Europe in African migrant imaginaries as both promise and failure. Sanusi’s Eyo is a narrative of a ten-year-old girl who is trafficked to the United Kingdom as a human sex slave. The novel draws attention to the tensions that define her being/unbeing in Europe and beyond, even after a brave escape from her traffickers. This precarious existence is enhanced in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street, whose main characters exist in Europe selling their bodies while existing in states of continuous vulnerability. In reading these two novels side by side, this article explores the discursive meanings of trafficked bodies and how traumatic existence allows for an engagement with Europe as illusory in the imaginaries of African women who cross borders into Europe. The article argues that while the female characters are vulnerable, they retain an ambiguous agency contained within their ability to survive and remain resilient in the face of atrocities for borders crossers. The narrative form of the novel allows for an exploration of what this agency looks like in the face of extreme vulnerability.

Copyright and the Digital Economy Act

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Anna Karwowska
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The Way

Copyright law has undergone significant expansion in order to tackle some of the problems posed by the ease of infringement on the Internet, as can be seen in the Digital Economy Act introduced in the United Kingdom. There must, however, be fundamental changes to the way we think about and enforce artists and authors’ rights if copyright is to make sense and be effective in the developing digital environment. This article gives a comparative view on the issue, taking account of the economic impact of online file-sharing and its cultural implications.

scholarly journals Continuing Education through COVID-19 Crisis in the United Kingdom: A Swiss Trainee Abroad

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. e25-e29
Author(s):  
Alicja Zientara
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Surgery ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Swiss Society ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cardiac Surgeon ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

AbstractThe work has been awarded in July 2020 with the “Special Swiss Young Cardiac Surgeon Award 2020” by the Swiss Society of Cardiac Surgery (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Herz- und thorakale Gefässchirurgie [SGHC-SSCC]) and reflects a personal perspective from a Swiss trainee experiencing the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic during her fellowship in London.

scholarly journals The Copyright and Privacy Nexus

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susy Frankel
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Current Form ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Relationship

The New Zealand development of a tort limited to wrongful publication of private fact (and in the United Kingdom by extension of breach of confidence) has not been accompanied by a consideration of the relationship that such a cause of action might have with intellectual property, particularly copyright. The emerging tort is potentially a strong right in information. The appropriate parameters of protection of information are core to many aspects of copyright law. This article questions whether the sidelining of copyright law in the privacy debate is appropriate. In general there is an overlap between intellectual property, particularly copyright and privacy in relation to information. Specifically an overlap arises because there is a section in the Copyright Act 1994 that provides a privacy right in relation to films and photographs. This article examines that provision and concludes that in its current form it is inconsistent with the emerging tort of privacy in wrongful disclosure of private information.

scholarly journals Representation Analysis of “Great Expectation” Novel by Charles Dickens

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Luthfiansyah Luthfiansyah ◽  
Mildan Arsdan Fidinillah
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Individual Growth ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Great Expectation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Queen Victoria

<p>This research examines the novel ‘The Great Expectation’. Researchers are interested in analyzing this novel because it is a picture of real life, especially life in the United Kingdom in the days of Queen Victoria. As a realistic writer, Charles Dickens is through people’s descriptions reflect reality in his life time. This research uses the theory of semiotics which is collaborated with Karl Marx’s theory which reveals class strata. In the science of semiotics, everything, even humans can be made a sign, which can be developed into a myth of life. Seeing from the main actor’s novel, Pip, Everyone still has a lot to learn, such as his kindness, strength, and optimism. Individual growth is the process of growing into a perfect self. Although Pip’s great hopes are disappointing, he finally returns to good moral character, and starts a new life. In addition, this study analyzes the style of the main character Pip which has its own points in interpreting the style of dress. In this novel, researchers want to prove that the style of dress can be a tool to prove the formation of a person’s identity or the identity of a particular group that uses it.</p>

Mohsin Hamid's War on Error: The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a Post-Truth Novel

CounterText ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-280
Author(s):  
Nazry Bahrawi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Historical Text

In contemporary political discourse, the term ‘post-truth’ denotes rhetorical techniques often directed at garnering popular support. Post-truth techniques were, for instance, said to have characterised Donald Trump's presidential campaign in the United States as well as the Brexit lobby in the United Kingdom. This article proposes an alternative interpretation of ‘post-truth’, approaching it as a challenge to dominant systems of knowledge expressed through literary narratives. This essay puts forward a consideration of ‘decolonial post-truth’ as a rhetorical technique inspired by Walter Mignolo's concept of decoloniality. In so doing, it engages with the countertextual through the ways in which literariness travels from the novel into everyday politics. Seeking to demonstrate the workings of decolonial post-truth through a close reading of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), the essay positions the novel as a counter-historical text that challenges the truisms that breathe life into 9/11 Islamophobia.

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