The Awareness of Copyright towards Digital Content among Library Users

Abstract:

The advent of digital libraries today has been mired with several aspect including the development of appropriate technologies, issues related to storage, right management and so on. With the application of technologies in digital libraries, process of digitization can easily done, the increasing of storage capacity and the improving quality of accessing the materials or information. However, just as digital technology creates new opportunities for library user to have convenient access to massive library digital content, this technology at the same time helps open the possibility of user’s problematic behavior, such as massive downloading or even copyright law violation. From the perspective of the users, the major function of a digital library is to provide them easy and timely access to the digital resources wherever and whenever a need for them arises.