Changing Nature of Copyright Law: Impact on Information Access (ความเปลี่ยนแปลงในกฎหมายลิขสิทธิ์: ผลกระทบต่อการเข้าถึงสารนิเทศ)
ในขณะทกฎหมายลขสทธไดใหสทธเดดขาดแกผทรงสทธเพอปองกนการใชทไมไดรบการอนญาต กฎหมายลขสทธกไดใหขอยกเวนและขอจำกดในลขสทธ ซงเรยกกนโดยทวไปวา “การใชงานโดยธรรม” แกสาธารณชนเพอลดการใชสทธเดดขาดของผทรงสทธ   จากการเปลยนแปลงทรวดเรวของเทคโนโลย  จงทำใหเกดผลกระทบตอความสมดลในผลประโยชนระหวางผทรงสทธและผใชสทธ  ผทรงสทธไดสรางเครองมอปองกนทางเทคนค หรอ Digital Right Management (DRM) ขน   เพอปกปองงานของตนจากการเขาถงโดยไมไดรบอนญาตในสภาวะแวดลอมทเปนดจทล  อยางไรกด  DRM ไดกลายเปนประเดนททาทายตอวตถประสงคหลกของหลกการใชงานโดยธรรม โดยเฉพาะในเรองการเขาถงสารนเทศของสถาบนการศกษา  หองสมด  และสงคมสารนเทศและความร Copyright law grants the right holders the exclusive rights in order to prohibit the unauthorized use on one hand and on the other hand, it provides the public the exceptions to and limitations on copyright, as generally called “fair use”, in order to cut down the right holders’ exclusive rights. Due to the rapid change of technology, the balancing interests between the right holders and users are affected. The right holders create a technical protection device, Digital Right Management (DRM), to control unauthorized access in the digital environment. Nevertheless, DRM becomes a challenging issue for the core purpose of the fair use doctrine, especially information access of educational institutions, libraries, and information and knowledge society.
Every Library’s Nightmare? Digital Rights Management, Use Restrictions, and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources
This study explored use restrictions found in licensed scholarly resources from the fields of history/art history, engineering, and health sciences. The analysis developed a framework of use restrictions that distinguishes between soft restrictions—which discourage use—and hard restrictions—which strictly prevent use. Soft restrictions include: extent of use, obfuscation, omission, amalgamation, frustration, and warning. The study concludes that these soft restrictions are relatively common in licensed scholarly resources. Further, while hard restrictions are less common, they are not unknown. The study questions whether librarians should be doing more to challenge use restrictions.
Designed to ‘effectively frustrate’: copyright, technology and the agency of users
Recently, the major US music and movie companies have pursued a dramatic renovation in their approach to copyright enforcement. This shift, from the ‘code’ of law to the ‘code’ of software, looks to technologies themselves to regulate or make unavailable those uses of content traditionally handled through law. Critics worry about the ‘compliance’ rules built into such systems: design mandates for manufacturers indicating what users can and cannot do under particular conditions. But these are accompanied by a second set of limitations: ‘robustness’ rules. Robustness rules obligate manufacturers to build devices such that they prevent tinkering - not only must the technology regulate its users, it must be inscrutable to them. This article examines this aspect of technical copyright regulation, looking particularly at the Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption system for DVDs and the recent ‘broadcast flag’ proposed for digital television. In the name of preventing piracy, these arrangements threaten to undermine users’ sense of agency with their own technologies.