Kenneth Crews on WIPO study on library exceptions to copyright law
22 12 2008Here’s a quick interview with Kenneth Crews, who prepared the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives for its Seventeenth Session in Geneva, November 3 to 7, 2008.
Minow: What sparked your interest in studying library exceptions to copyright law around the world?
Crews: I was invited by the World Intellectual Property Organization to undertake this study. I had the pleasure of sharing a program in the United Arab Emirates with an official from WIPO, and she put in the recommendation that I do the project. I had long been interested in the issues. They are central to much of my work for libraries and universities, and I have written about the U.S. library provision in some of my publications. The chance to do a major worldwide study was an invitation I was quick to accept.
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