April 25, 2003
Copyright Law Changes in Germany
A hotly contested copyright law adopted this month by Germany's Parliament gives universities and research institutions considerable leeway to digitally distribute copyrighted materials among students and scholars without paying extra charges. The law has been welcomed by academics. But academic publishers, who fought the bill, say it will force them out of business.
The bill was designed to bring German law in line with a two-year-old European Union directive covering a wide range of
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