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Lawyers' Edinburgh 1800-2000
No full textLawyers' Edinburgh 1800-2000 is a beginning on the history of leading Edinburgh law firms from 1800-2000, intended to show their long existence, their location in the New Town until very recently, and the identities of their partners.
The database, which also includes photos of locations, is the result of a pilot study. The database has been designed so that it can be extended in its coverage of time, space and persons. For useful background see Hector L MacQueen, 'Lawyers’ Edinburgh 1908-2008', Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, new series volume 8 (2010) pp. 27-53. http://www.oldedinburghclub.org.uk/BOEC/Volume-8.shtm
South of Scotland Castles of the 15th Century
No full textA file listing spreadsheet contains details of the steps taken in the production of the maps.This data details the locations of castles in the south of Scotland in the 15th century. The locations were gathered by Prof MacQueen. The data were cleaned and mapped by Pauline Ward using ESRI ArcGIS 10.2 with assistance from Stuart Macdonald (both Data Library).MacQueen, Hector; Ward, Pauline; Macdonald, Stuart. (2016). South of Scotland Castles of the 15th Century, 1400-1499 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1392
Copyright and educational exceptions in Thailand: A comparative study
Get PDFThe thesis starts in Chapter 1 by providing the background to the
development of the Thai copyright exceptions and the prospective Thai-US Free
Trade Area (FTA) Agreements. In Chapter 2, I identify three major problems which
arise from the inappropriate and unclear educational exceptions of the Thai CA 1994.
The first problem is that the copyright law and its exceptions cannot effectively
protect the economic interest of copyright owners but rather reduce the effectiveness
of the copyright protection regime in Thailand as a result of three factors: the unclear
educational exceptions; the problematic approaches to the copyright exceptions of
the Thai IP Court; and the lack of a copyright collecting society (CCS) and a
licensing scheme system in the Thai education sector. The second problem is that the
Thai educational exceptions do not properly protect the moral right to be recognized
as the author of the work in both the general and digital contexts. Finally, they do not
support the long-distance education and lifelong learning policy of the Thai
government as well as preventing educational institutions, teachers and students from
the benefit of new digital technologies.The thesis recommends that the following tasks be carried out in order to
solve the above problems. First, reforms must be made to the educational exceptions
in the Thai CA 1994 in order to make them more restrictive and limited than at
present. For instance, a clear limitation, a prohibition on multiple reproductions, and
a requirement of sufficient acknowledgment must be inserted into the educational
exceptions of the Thai CA 1994. Second, I recommend the introduction of digital
copyright provisions on Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) and Electronic
Rights Management Information (RMIs) into the Thai copyright system. This is
necessary in order to ensure that educational materials can be made readily available
online for distance education purposes with appropriate protection. These can also
protect the economic interests of copyright owners in the digital environment by
ensuring that only authorised persons access educational materials, not the public in
general. Nevertheless, it is also necessary to ensure that non-infringing uses for
educational purposes provided in the copyright exceptions of the Thai CA 1994 will
be exempted from the violation of the prospective TPM and RMI provisions. Third, I
argue that legislative reform to the educational exceptions and the introduction of the
TPM and RMI provisions alone cannot completely solve the problem because the
increased numbers of copyright infringements in the Thai education sector result
from both the unclear exceptions and the lack of a CCS. Thus, the reforms of the
exceptions and the introduction of new law must be carried out together with the
establishment of the CCS and a licensing scheme system in the Thai education
sector. Nevertheless, the establishment of the CCS without any legal controls upon
its activities would result in further problems, so I contend that such establishment
must be done together with the introduction of a regulation and a governmental body
to prevent the CCS from abusing its licensing scheme or its powers in an
anticompetitive way. Finally, the thesis points out several useful lessons arising from
the study of the Thai copyright exceptions which could benefit global copyright
protection and other countries. I have sought to state the law as it stood at the end of September 2010
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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