The context is mostly within the EU (especially referencing the European Copyright Directive ) but also investigates the US concept of "Fair use". The authors provide an excellent overview of the differing bundles of rights associated with copyright and how this is evolving in terms of reaction to societal and technological shifts. Key is the bulk digitisation efforts by commercial and non-profits and how this effects authors both known and unknown (ie orphan works). This is in parallel to developments in the area of Big Data, where for instance new discoveries could be made by data mining connections between various online resources such as scientific papers.
Overall a good introduction to this interesting intersection of law and IT.
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