A global copyright issue arises in a variety of situations. You have to think globally if any of the following apply to you:
- An employee accesses your licensed databases while traveling out of the country
- You are negotiating a digital license with a vendor/publisher/content owner who is based outside your own country
- Librarians from more than one country (for e.g., South Africa, Australia, Canada and the U.S.) join a journal club and share articles through the club (post articles to a private online space)
- Two colleagues contribute research papers from authors from several countries which they share via Sharepoint
- You post a photograph on your Facebook page
- Your organization has locations or employees in more than one country
- You are teaching an online course with students from more than one country
- You are posting content on a website or intranet that will be accessed outside your own country
- You are using content from outside your own country
- You are determining whether fair use or fair dealing may be a defense to the use of online content
Do you have further situations to share? Please post them below.
