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You're making an assumption that what the librarians is doing is lawful. It may or may not. Librarians are not lawyers. We also don't know if these librarians a
by killingtime74 3y ago
You're making an assumption that what the librarians is doing is lawful. It may or may not. Librarians are not lawyers. We also don't know if these librarians are breaking the law knowing or unknowingly. (AU lawyer, no idea about Japanese copyright law)
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- huepfebein 3y agoLibraries, backed by professional associations and legal departments, usually follow developments regarding copyright laws (at least on a national level) very closely und provide detailed guidelines for their employees on how to handle these kinds of requests. Your typical librarian is probably more knowledgeable about copyright regulations than the average citizen. Also, some librarians are also legal professionals (I'm friends with two such persons).
- fhars 3y agoI think it is a modarately safe bet that the people who designed the processes used by the official library of the Japanese parliament have a reasonable grasp of the applicable laws.