Information Rights In Practice: The Non-legal Professional's Guide

摘要

Knowing and interpreting the law are now centre-ground in information work. Reasons are pretty obvious to find - a growing reliance on legalistic solutions, increasing emphasis on intellectual property rights and in consequence ways of protecting information and accessing it under licence, more legalism in society generally (including among users of libraries, and infused with sentiment about rights and human rights), and a growing need with information convergence and concentration to observe and establish and evade legal protocols internationally. Facet Publishing have been one of several publishers in recent years to pick up on this felt need in the professional marketplace for guides on the law, and in books by writers like Paul Pedley and Kelvin Smith, they have provided several helpful introductions to applicable law (Pedley on information-related law generally and Smith on freedom of information (FOI) and records).