On April 18, 2016 the US Supreme Court declined an appeal from the Authors Guild that accused Google of copyright infringement for scanning their books (Kravets, 2016). Despite the decision of the US top court was made in favour of Google, there are still acute debates about its correctness and the correct interpretation of ‘fair[…]
Taking into account that the last major change to copyright legislation took place in 1980s – the era of the Betamax and personal cassette recorder – and now almost all the data is created and stored in a digital form, copyright definitely needs modernisation (White, 2012). Most of the copyright laws are considered to be[…]
It can be said without a doubt that currently the boundary between a digital media consumer and producer is gradually vanishing. Due to the development of Web 2.0 and the increasing accessibility of advanced technologies like mobile phones, digital cameras, WYSIWYG editors more and more people are leaving the position of a passive spectator and becoming digital authors. […]