Digitization and copyright

Abstract

The Hungarian Journal for Library and Information Science has several times touched upon the library-related aspects of the new copyright law. Articles published so far were written by legal ex-perts. This time, readers are offered an explicit summary of essential copyright information for digitization activities by an author who is applying copyright rules in practice day by day. The importance of the topic is emphasísed by the fact that at the end of 2003, new amendments have been made to the copyright law, which has an effect both on content provision via the Internet, and on the digitization work going on at libraries and museums.