B22. Ebook Licensing and Interlibrary Loan: An International Perspective
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Presenter(s):
Janice T. Pilch, Rutgers University
Interlibrary lending provisions in ebook licenses are a contested issue. Interlibrary loan of ebooks does not take the form of traditional lending, and ILL licensing provisions for ebooks are based on different legal concepts than the copyright provisions that govern the lending of print books. Beyond discussion of the possibilities for ebook lending between libraries within the U.S., interesting questions arise concerning the future of international interlibrary loan within the landscape of copyright law and global licensing practices.
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Presentation Summary
The VALE Resource Sharing Committee in partnership with the VALE ebooks Working Group invited Janice Pilch to present a session at the VALE Conference 2012, and she chose the topic "Ebook Licensing and Interlibrary Loan: An International Perspective."
Janice T. Pilch is Copyright and Licensing Librarian and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Since 2001 she has researched and published on U.S. and international copyright issues. From 2007-2011 she served as an international copyright advocate for the Library Copyright Alliance, a coalition of three major U.S. library organizations—American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) — at the World Intellectual Property Organization and other international organizations, to promote fair and equitable access to information.
Janice was appointed Visiting Program Officer on International Copyright for the Association of Research Libraries for 2009-2010, is a member of the IFLA Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters, and chairs a permanent committee on copyright issues within the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. She has also served as chair of the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy Copyright Advisory Subcommittee.
Janice came to Rutgers in July 2011 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she had served as librarian in Slavic and East European Studies, as well as and Germanic Studies and Linguistics.
Janice covered the current legal landscape for e-book lending and flashpoints with a complete overview of U.S. copyright law and international context for U.S. copyright law, then she considered how ebooks fit into the library exceptions to copyright law and what options exist for libraries to change the existing legal landscape for interlibrary loan and ebooks. The Powerpoint of the presentation is posted here, and it includes links to Model License Language for libraries, such as the
California Digital Library Standard License Agreement at http://www.cdlib.org/gateways/vendors/guidelines_licensing.html