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Fair dealing week! 21st – 25th February 2022
The first UK Fair Dealing week is nearly upon us! Celebrating the Fair Dealing exceptions in UK copyright law, this week highlights and encourages a better understanding of the topic. It began as the US ‘Fair Use Week’ which this year has been extended to include countries who use the concept of Fair Dealing in their copyright law. Though different doctrines they have core similarities.
Covid-19 update: Box of Broadcasts and the ERA licence
UCL’s ERA (Educational Recording Agency) licence enables recording of broadcast TV and radio for educational purposes: programmes are delivered through the searchable database BoB (Box of Broadcasts). For more about the ERA licence and BoB, and how they can be used to support teaching, see this previous blog post on ‘TV and radio in teaching‘.
Update on Copyright support for UCL students and staff
- The UCL Library Services Copyright team is currently working remotely. We are still available to assist with copyright enquiries from UCL students and staff specifically, so please do feel to contact us by emailing: Copyright@ucl.ac.uk We will be checking those emails regularly, but we will also be working non-standard hours for the time being so please bear with us if it takes a while to reply to your questions.
DSM Copyright Directive will not be implemented in the UK
The Minister responsible for intellectual Property, Chris Skidmore has stated very clearly that the UK Government has no intention of implementing the EU Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive.
CLA data collection January 2020
The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) will be conducting a photocopying data collection exercise at UCL in January 2020 for six weeks.
UCL holds a CLA Higher Education licence and it is part of our licence agreement that they occasionally undertake this survey; the last was held at UCL in 2010. The purpose of the exercise is for the CLA to gather information to inform how they redistribute money to authors and publishers: it is also referred to as a ‘Royalties data’ exercise.
CLA licence update
The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Higher Education licence enables staff at UCL to digitise or photocopy readings for teachin
Library copyright exceptions: New SCONUL briefing paper
SCONUL have published a new briefing paper on the library exceptions to copyright with a very clear explanation of the exceptions which permit libraries to supply copies upon request to members of the public and to other not-for-profit libraries (broadly Sections 41 to 43 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988).
Joint Authorship: Recent case sheds light the test for joint authorship
A recent case heard by the Court of Appeal, Kogan v. Martin sheds light on the test which the court needs to apply to decide whether someone is in fact a “joint author” of a work.
Letters and copyright in the news
One of the issues faced regularly by archives which hold the correspondence of a prominent person is that the letters will have multiple copyright owners. Copyright in a letter belongs to the author and typically there will be many authors. This becomes an issue when you need permission to digitise or publish letters from the archive.
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