Copyright
Disclaimer:
These materials are intended as a guide for HE staff on copyright issues, as the Subject Centre understands it, but it is advisable to check with your university library or legal department to be sure that you are acting in accordance with local, national and international practice.
The links and papers on this page are intended to help clarify generic and subject-specific copyright issues. They cover areas such as:
- Use of print sources
- Digitising materials
- Using materials from the internet
- Online journals
- Linking to websites
- Putting materials onto a VLE
- Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (yours)
- Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (other peoples')
- Paying for permission/copyright licences
- International copyright law/agreements
Links
1. Copyright licences
Copyright Licensing Agency
www.cla.co.uk
Educational Recording Agency
www.era.org.uk
Newspaper Licensing Agency
www.nla.co.uk
British Universities Film and Video Council
www.bufvc.ac.uk
2. Copyright clearance
Heron
www.heron.ingenta.com
3. Copyright in Higher Education
Guidelines for Fair Dealing in an Electronic Environment
www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/fair/intro.html
Adam Warren (University of Southampton's) copyright pages
www.elearning.soton.ac.uk/theme/copyright/index.htm
Electronic Journals and Copyright (University of Southampton Library)
www.southampton.ac.uk/library/about/regulations/index.html
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) copyright FAQs
www.ahds.ac.uk/copyrightfaq.htm
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) copyright resources
www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/copyright/
4. Intellectual property rights
Intellectual Property (UK Government-backed)
www.intellectual-property.gov.uk
Intellectual property rights
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ipr/IntellectualProperty.htm#overview
5. New developments in copyright
Recent Changes to Copyright Law and the implications for FE and HE
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/publications/copyrightcoppenheim.htm
Recent changes to copyright law (2002/03)
www.patent.gov.uk/copy/notices/2002/guidance2.htm
UK Creative Commons Licences
www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=ie_sharealike
- Briefing paper
www.ltsn-01.ac.uk/interoperability/creativecommons_html - Presentation
www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/RichardMcCrackenPreso.ppt
Copyleft
www.copyleftmedia.org.uk
Downloads
1. Richard McKracken (Open University) powerpoint presentation
Multimedia Rights Clearance
www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/1623
Creative commons
www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/RichardMcCrackenPreso.ppt
2. Educational Copyright in the context of language teaching and the provision of independent language learning materials
Educational Copyright:
Copyright Edition 3 - July 2001 (rtf 114Kb)
(revised November 2004)
3. Subject Centre copyright agreements
(these are intended as samples and should be checked/adapted before use)
- Exclusive rights (rtf 32Kb)
- Non-exclusive rights: example 1 (rtf 30Kb)
- Non-exclusive rights: example 2 (rtf 31Kb)
Publishers
1. Palgrave Macmillan
The publishers of the famous Breakthrough language learning series allow multi-copying of audio cassettes for students but request that anyone wishing to do this signs and returns a letter of confirmation that these copies are for educational use only, will be free of charge and will carry a copyright label.
See Palgrave's Breakthrough Series licence agreement (scroll down the page)
www.palgrave.com/breakthrough
2. BBCi Website
Copyright statement
www.bbc.co.uk/help/copyright.shtml
Downloads:
- CopyrightEdition3.rtf (0 Kb)
- MBnonExclusiveRights.rtf (0 Kb)
- WGExclusiveRights.rtf (0 Kb)
- WGnonExclusiveRights.rtf (0 Kb)
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