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The protection of intellectual property is an old and very important right. In this work we discuss the problem of the Document Delivery Service, i.e. the partial reproduction and transmission of papers extracted from journals, conference proceedings or other collections of scientific articles, performed between libraries on behalf of researchers and students. In particular, we analyze the Document Delivery via Internet in the framework of the European Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, published on May 22, 2001. ; Questo lavoro analizza gli aspetti legali correlati al diritto di autore nell'ambito delle attivit? di Document Delivery effettuate da biblioteche. Nella prima parte vengono analizzate in dettaglio le componenti di una transazione di document delivery, allo scopo di evidenziare i flussi della copia elettronica ed individuare le componenti per l'analisi giuridica. Nella seconda parte viene analizzato il ruolo delle componenti precedentemente individuate nell'ambito della normativa sul diritto d'autore ed in particolare del recente recente Decreto Legislativo numero 68 del 9 Aprile 2003, che attua la Direttiva del Parlamento Europeo 2001/29 CE, del 22 maggio 2001.

The protection of intellectual property is an old and very important right. Intellectual property embraces multiple fields such as literature, art, music, industrial patents, performances and so on. Every year the lack of application of this right produces an enormous loss of revenue as well as jobs. At the moment, the absence of a worldwide legislation makes it impossible to fight this phenomenon efficiently. In this report we discuss the problem of the Document Delivery Service, i.e. the partial reproduction and transmission of papers extracted from journals, conference proceedings or other collections of scientific articles, performed between libraries on behalf of researchers and students. In particular, we analyze the Document Delivery via Internet in the framework of the italian law n. 68 of 9 april 2003, which implements the European Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, published on May 22, 2001.

There has been intense debate recently among all European Member States and in the European Parliament concerning the patentibility of SW programs. In this report we analyze the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, as presented in October 2002, and discuss the technological character of the SW product in order to determine the most appropriate form of protection.