The Knowledge Warehouse: Legal and commercial issues

Abstract

This paper describes the legal and commercial aspects of the Knowledge Warehouse, a national archive of the electronic form of knowledge works, based on a year long study undertaken by Publishers Databases Ltd with support from the British Library and Department of Trade and Industry. Legal issues include the establishment of an Archive Trust, ownership and control of archived data, copyright, and conditions for deposit of works. Commercial issues include exploitation of archived data, types of product to emerge from the Archive, and key contractual issues.

Citation

Williamson, R. (1988), "The Knowledge Warehouse: Legal and commercial issues", The Electronic Library, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044781