{"id":1335,"date":"2013-01-08T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncjolt.org\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2020-06-04T20:54:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:54:04","slug":"the-public-display-of-digital-library-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/the-public-display-of-digital-library-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Public Display of Digital Library Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\nThis Article evaluates the scope of the public display right in the context of digital library collections, and suggests an interpretation of the right that tries to make sense of the practical concerns that its drafters expressed when creating it. In short, the Article focuses on the sometimes-forgotten but important fact that the unauthorized display of copyrighted works is only an infringement of the copyright owner\u2019s exclusive right if the work is displayed to \u201cthe public.\u201d The Copyright Act nowhere defines the term \u201cthe public,\u201d but viewed in light of its legislative history and interpretive guidance from the courts, this Article argues that the \u201cpublic\u201d part of \u201cpublic display\u201d can be read as meaning \u201cthe public market for copies\u201d of the work. When a display does not impact the traditional public market for copies of the work\u2014i.e., when one exploits copies at a level of use consistent with traditional uses like library lending, for example\u2014there is no public display and therefore no infringement of the public display right.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Article evaluates the scope of the public display right in the context of digital library collections, and suggests an interpretation of the right that tries to make sense of the practical concerns that its drafters expressed when creating it. In short, the Article focuses on the sometimes-forgotten but important fact that the unauthorized display <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/the-public-display-of-digital-library-collections\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,93,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}