Electronic Information For Libraries, eIFL-IP Advocacy for Access to Information, has released a new Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries on their web site in html and downloadable PDF. The Handbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Sponsored by UNESCO, the handbook is a practical guide to topical legal questions affecting libraries worldwide. Sections include: “The Relationship between Copyright and Contract Law,” “Creative Commons,” “Open Access to Scholarly Communication,” and others.