Staying Legal: A Guide to Issues and Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856044386 ISBN 13: 9781856044387

Publisher: Facet Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

A complex mix of national and international regulatory regimes govern the information industries. Information professionals and publishers are ever more involved in the production use of electronic resources. A familiarity with the need for regulation, its various forms, its framework and compliance strategies is vital to ensure that they stay on the right side of the law. This authoritative handbook, written by leading experts in the field, offers a practical guide to the full range of legal issues relating to information work and the knowledge industries. Aiming to make the law accessible, it provides a first port of call for information professionals and publishers wishing to know where they stand, and will alert them to the potential pitfalls surrounding such activities as publishing on the internet, direct marketing and doing business on the web. This second edition is comprehensively revised to cover the many changes in the law that have occurred recently, and there are completely new chapters covering patents, trade marks, risk management, IT contracts and negotiating licences. Information managers and providers in all sectors should make surethat they have access to this indispensable guide to the legal issues that affect their work, as should students on information studies courses. The Contributors: Stephen Adams Magister Ltd Andrew Charlesworth Centre for IT and Law (CITL), University of Bristol Allison Coleman Culturenet Cymru Ltd Guy Holborn Lincoln's Inn Library Richard McCracken Open University Gerry Power Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Heather Rowe Technology, Media and Telecoms Group, Lovells Mark Taylor Technology, Media and Telecoms Group, Lovells Charlotte Waelde University of Edinburgh.

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About the Author

Chris Armstrong BLib FCLIP FIAP is Managing Director of Information Automation Limited (IAL), a research, training and consultancy company in the library and information management sector which was established in 1987 (www.i-a-l.co.uk), and which runs the Centre for Information Quality Management (CIQM). He works regularly with the Department of Information Studies at University of Wales Aberystwyth, where he teaches a module on electronic publishing and is currently involved with several major research projects. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers (IAP), and is currently Chair of UKOLUG. Laurence W. Bebbington MA(Hons) MSc is Law Librarian at the University of Nottingham. He has lectured in Information Science at the University of Strathclyde and has also worked at the universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Glasgow, and at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He is a former Vice Chair of UKOLUG. He writes a regular column on legal issues in information work for the UKOLUG Newsletter and a column on 'IT and the Law' for Legal Information Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856044386
• ISBN 13: 9781856044387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Armstrong C.J., Bebbington Laurence W.