Libraries and the new Copyright Act of 1999.

Abstract

The draft of the new Copyright Act does not contradict to Act CXL of 1997, the fundamental Act on culture which includes alsó library supply is-sues. Public libraries as users and intermediaries of authors' intellectual works should bear obliga-tíons and have rights in the course of the enforcement of the authors' pecuniary and personal rights. The draft Act regulates which library actions be-long to categories of use subject to licence, of free use and of fee-based use due to collective right management. Ali these regulations do not mean signifrcant changes to the present library practices, rather a more precise formulation of earlier rules took place.