ERIC Number: EJ586350
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Publication Date: 1999
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Safe Harbors: Online Liability Provisions Should Benefit Information Professionals.
Crosby, John
Information Outlook, v3 n2 p28-32 Feb 1999
Discusses provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) that relate to special librarians and offer a limitation on liability for online service providers. Highlights include eligibility requirements; storing material and referring users to material at other locations through hypertext links or search engines; system caching; and scope of exemptions from liability. (LRW)
Descriptors: Copyrights, Information Storage, Legal Responsibility, Online Vendors, Special Libraries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998
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