Right to access to contents versus intellectual property rights in the Global Information Infrastructure English version published in the Conference ProceedingsDiritto di accesso ai contenuti e diritti di proprietà intellettuale nell'infrastruttura globale dell'informazione Versione italiana pubblicata sugli Atti della Conferenza

摘要

International Meeting: The Electronic ResourcesDefinition, Selection and CataloguingRome, 26-28 November 2001Informative Infrastructure is a term of wide significance, extended a lot beyond the physical tools used for the transmission, elaboration or treatment of information.This issue puts into light the significance and the assumption of the communicative architecture between the informative infrastructures inside which libraries are moving. In particular the focus is on the significance of “access to contents” in the frame of the Global Informative Infrastructure, GII and on the boundaries that prevent the fruition of the information in the net. Sometimes the obstacles to the extension of the benefits of the access to the contents on global scale (hidden inside the regulations established by the governments) are thrown off balance towards the reinforcement of the restrictions of the intellectual property on the contents. Most of all, politics and definite standards are necessary in the digital libraries, in order to build strategies that can ensure a balance between the intellectual right of property and the law of access to the contents in the point of view of copy-right, seen as the right of copy and of fair use, seen as a fair payment and universal access.