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Memo on Official Texts of a Legislative, Administrative and Legal Nature and Official Translations
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According to Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (amended on September 28, 1979), Article 2:
"(4) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to determine the protection to be granted to official texts of a legislative, administrative and legal nature, and to official translations of such texts."
Database Copyright in a Library: China’s Legislation, Judicial Case and Their Revelation
Author: 翟建雄 ; Source:chinalawinfo.com
Abstract: The rapid development of information technology and its wide application in library's domain provides a superb opportunity to library in its transformation from a traditional library to modern one. It is one of important ways that library realize its shift to a digital one by using digitalized techniques to compile various types of databases from its printed holdings in this way to bring about the sharing and dissemination of information spanning time and space. But the first problem confronting the compiler in his database construction is copyright. This paper, while introducing legislation and judicial case at home and abroad, especially analyzing the legal significance of major two types of database: original and non-original ones, probes the appropriate ways for digital libraries in handling their copyright problems arising in the course of compiling a database.
Key word: database, copyright, digital library
