Digital content creation and copyright issues

• Published in: Electronic library Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 676 - 683
• Main Authors: Mahesh, G, Mittal, Rekha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited 07.08.2009; Emerald
• Subjects: Character Recognition; Context; Copyright; Copyright law; Digital libraries; Digital storage; Digital systems; Digitization; Documentation institutions; Electronic Libraries; Electronic media; Exact sciences and technology; Faculty Publishing; India; Information and communication sciences; Information science. Documentation; Institutional repositories; Legal aspects : intellectual property, producer responsability; Legal aspects : intellectual property, producer responsability. Ethics; Libraries; Libraries. Documentation centres; Libraries. Virtual and electronic libraries. Media centers. Documentation centers; Library and information science. General aspects; Library collections; Library Materials; Licensing; Multimedia; Printed Materials; Publishing industry; Sciences and techniques of general use; Selection Criteria; Storage; Word Processing; Asia; India; Digital libraries; Copyright law; Digital storage; India; Copyright; Electronic storage; Intellectual property; Legal aspect; Electronic library
• ISSN: 0264-0473; 1758-616X
• DOI: 10.1108/02640470910979615

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.