- Title
- E-books and the principle of technological neutrality: should public lending right schemes apply to e-lending?
- Creator
- Matulionyte, Rita
- Relation
- Australian Intellectual Property Journal Vol. 27, Issue 4, p. 209-226
- Relation
- https://www.westlaw.com.au/maf/wlau/app/document?docguid=I6a0f5d2045ad11e79f5e87e05f05ece4&isTocNav=true&tocDs=AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC&startChunk=1&endChunk=1
- Publisher
- Lawbook Co.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Public Lending Right (PLR) and Educational Lending Right (ELR) schemes are remunerating Australian authors and publishers for making available their books in Australian libraries. However, e-books are currently not included under these schemes. With the expansion of the e-book market and e-lending services within Australian libraries, it has been suggested that the schemes should be technologically neutral and extend to include e-books. After an extensive analysis of the technological neutrality principle, this article concludes this principle does not impose a legal obligation to extend PLR and ELR to e-books since traditional lending and e-lending are not functionally and economically equivalent services. Nevertheless, such an extension could be favourable when taking into account other economic, cultural and political circumstances.
- Subject
- public lending right (PLR); copyright; educational lending right (ELR); e-lending; e-books
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1352206
- Identifier
- uon:30835
- Identifier
- ISSN:1038-1635
- Language
- eng
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