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BLIF15M004
Media Librarianship
Contents
Background
Freelance copyrights
Errors, correction and legal action
Live court proceedings
The Newspaper Licensing Agency
(NLA)
Definitions
A daily or weekly publication on folded
sheets; contains news and articles and
advertisements.
OR
A typical newspaper is an aggregated
product, made up of contributions from staff
and reporters, freelance journalists, stories
from news agencies, syndicated features,
letters to the editors and so on.
Background
o Online archives of newspaper were
difficult and troublesome.
o In early ages of digital environment,
finding back issue of newspaper was a not
an easy task.
o Newspapers, preserved in public libraries,
were not easy to search and retrieve.
o Finding newspaper through BHI was also
time consuming process.
Background
o Cutting and clipping process was
considered useful for the preservation of
newspapers.
o All the processes of BHI and clipping
does not have any concerned with
copying of material
o That is why there was no concept of
copyrights.
Background
o When the contents of newspaper went under
technological change i.e from print to digital
format, libraries began to create full text of
newspapers, searchable electronic archives.
o Most libraries began to create online in
house digital text archives.
Background
o Many of the complaints were
recorded by the journalists about in
house digital text archives.
a. They have only text.
b. It was not easy to read.
Freelance copyrights