Great technological developments in the last decades have offered a huge number of educational opportunities for the public in general and also for the most sensitive groups in developing countries. Having access to a library meant traditionally that there was a published copy of a printed work in the hands of a specific patron, whilst nowadays both access and copying have become intertwined through the availability of the Internet in libraries. My thesis will adjust these new data into its intentions with the aim to show how a balanced copyright protection can be achieved without disregarding the exceptions and limitations for educational purposes section.
Although third countries need all the more access to information and education, in most of the cases they have less resource to pay for a private bookshop or maintain functional a public library and adjust it to the new technological requirements. It is, therefore, needless to say that new approaches to the recent Intellectual Property regime are needed, in order to avoid the disappointing effect of the potential digital exclusion phenomenon.
As a result, my target in the present thesis is to contribute in exploring these new approaches, by keeping in mind that at the same time copyright exists, in order to provide for a balanced incentive for creation. Through the examination of the international, regional and national copyright legal approach, certain conclusions will be reached, concerning on one hand the e-learning education and the digitization of educational material and on the other hand the copyright era.
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