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Copyright in Unpublished Works: 2039 and Orphan Works
Get PDFTransitional provisions in the implementation of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988) made changes to the copyright protection to works which were unpublished at the time of the implementation of the Act. Those unpublished works will remain in copyright until 31 December 2039, rather than in perpetuity, as was previously the case. Following a consultation in late December 2014, the government has stated that they will not be making any changes to the legislation until further discussions take place. This article discusses the ways in which cultural and heritage institutions may make use of works subject to the 2039 rule, including both UK and European Orphan Works provisions, and considers the possible solutions for making the use of older 2039 works simpler
The management of change in the information age: Approaches of academic library directors in the USA
Get PDFThis study examined the approaches that academic library directors use to manage change using Bolman and Deal’s reframing change model as a guide. In addition, a regression analysis was conducted to study the influences of demographics, library characteristics and human capital variables on the approaches used. Data were collected from an online survey and descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data. The findings reveal that the frame-related issues in academic libraries and director managerial actions coincided with and confirmed the Bolman and Deal model. Results demonstrate that directors actually used multiple approaches as well as single and dual approaches to manage change. Demographic variables such as age and library characteristics such as library type and library size were significant predictors of the approaches used, but this study indicates that human capital variables and number of library branches made no difference. The results are helpful to better understand directors’ attitudes and behaviours, and the factors that influence approaches to change management
One hat or many? A comparison of two models for the Copyright Officer position in university libraries
Get PDFStatute law provides university libraries with a framework for copyright requirements, duties and privileges. In Australia, there are few guidelines or standards for university libraries about providing those copyright services that are not mandated by statute, such as copyright advice and compliance. There is little formally-shared knowledge about the non-statutory services provided by university library Copyright Officers. More information about this would benefit libraries reviewing or establishing these positions. This research uses survey and semi-structured face-to-face interviews with designated Copyright Officers in four Western Australian universities to document four aspects of their work. These four factors are interaction and support within the library and the institution; involvement in institutional copyright advice, involvement in institutional copyright compliance; and satisfaction with authority and resourcing. The survey and interviews revealed two different models for structuring the library Copyright Officer position; one model involving a part-time officer with responsibility only for copyright, and the other model involving a full-time officer who has only 5% of their duties involved in copyright with the remainder of the copyright duties being managed by a member of the university legal / governance office. Similarities were found between the activities of both models, such as the strategies involved in ensuring copyright compliance, and education and training sessions. There was agreement from all respondents that copyright compliance within their institution could be improved by an increase in the resources available to each position
A consideration of copyright for a national repository of humanities and social science data
Get PDFIn 2011 the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) began work on the development of an interactive national Trusted Digital Repository for contemporary and historical social and cultural data. Copyright and intellectual property rights were identified as essential areas which the DRI, as a content holder and data publisher, needed to investigate in order to develop workflows, policy and the Repository infrastructure. We established a Copyright and IP Task Force (CIPT) in January 2013 to capture and identify IP challenges from our stakeholder community and the DRI’s demonstrator collections. This report outlines the legislative context in which the CIPT worked, and how the CIPT addressed copyright challenges through the development of policies and a robust framework of legal documentation for the Repository. We also provide a case study on Orphan Works, detailing the process undertaken by the Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection, one of DRI’s demonstrator projects, in preparing their content for online publication in the Repository
Review of CILIP Conference (Connect Debate Innovate) Liverpool 2-3 July 2015
Get PDFBringing the information world together is no mean feat, but it is something that the 2015 CILIP conference in Liverpool delivered up for debate through keynote speeches, breakout themes and fringe elements. What the conference essentially asked us to do was “connect with each other”, “debate” and “leave inspired” (Parry, 2015, 2). So did this year’s conference do the job
