The June 2010 conference focused on public access to information in the digital world,
through the digitalisation and making available of works by libraries and record offices. It
examined the way in which society has dealt with – and possibly could approach –
technical developments in relation to demand for digital material, from legal, ethical and
business standpoints.
Examples of issues dealt with were:
- How should copyright be applied in the digital world and should the public be allowed the
same access online as they are if they walk into a physical library and browse books? - Is it possible to make digital works available purely for private use?
- What are the major challenges as regards data protection when libraries and archives digitise their contents?
- How can the availability of knowledge and the dissemination of information be facilitated at the European level?
- Can issues of competition, privacy, access to knowledge, and copyright be balanced so
as to improve access to digital knowledge to a sufficient extent?
Privacy Protection in the Digital Library
Session Chair: Professor Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, IRI
Current data protection challenges for a national library
Lynn Young, Corporate Archivist and Data Protection Manager, British Library
Data protection and access to archived information
Sören Öman, Director of the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, Stockholm University
Globalisation and regulatory approaches
Nikolaus Forgó, Co-chair of the Institute for Legal Informatics,Hannover
Panel discussion
Speakers + Kostas Rossoglou
