New Copyright Act and Information Ethics

Jiří Potáček, Mendel University of Agriculture in Brno

The 121/2000 act ("Copyright Act") valid since Dec.1st, 2000 presents libraries and information centres with new challenges. What are chances to face up with this act, how do law and ethics go together, did the act's authors observe the ethics? How does the Copyright Act look like from the standpoint of librarian, borrower and user of information services? What about information ethics previously and today? Application of professional and legal ethics in information services,moral aspects and their keeping, wrong-doing against information ethics, is it possible to observe laws and information ethics sumultaneously?