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Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator
Visual Resources Centre, History of Art
Department
March 14, 2014
Case Studies in International Copyright
Compliance
“The Oxford Experience”
Copyright in the UK - background
Copyright & Education in the UK
Fair dealing (vs. fair use)
Copyright exceptions
Copyright licences
Keeping up in the digital age
Preparing course content: prescribed images
ARTstor & Bridgeman Education
Museums, Galleries & Archives
Creative Commons licenced
images
The CLA Licence
Preparing course content continued…
Preparing content for projects
Training, advice & support
Publishing via the Oxford Research Archive
Sourcing images from libraries, archives and
museums
Receiving regular updates
Why international copyright?
Citizenship & community
Collaboration & productivity
Control & censorship
To summarise…
Copyright with care
Compliance requires patience
Copyright awareness
Sources and references
Fair dealing ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exception/c-exception-review/c-exception-
fairdealing.htm
Copyright exceptions: ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exception.htm
Copyright users: copyrightuser.org/
1709 copyright blog: http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/
UKeIG Copyright News Update: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/content/copyright-news-
update
ARTstor: artstor.org
Imperial War Museum: iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright/licence
Creative Commons Search: search.creativecommons.org/
CLA HE licence: he.cla.co.uk/
HEIR project: arch.ox.ac.uk/HEIR.html
Oxford Research Archive: ora.ox.ac.uk/
JISCMAIL lists: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
LIBER Position Statement: http://libereurope.eu/position-statement-copyright-reform
Picture credits
Large copyright sign
made of jigsaw
puzzle pieces from
Flickr.com
© Horia Varlan – CC-
BY
© Newtown
Graffiti, CC-BY
Flickr.com
© Luke Surl, CC-
BY-NC-SA
lukesurl.com/comi
c/614-on-the-
download
Braun
photographs,
photo © Vicky
Brown
GLAM camp NYC 2011
- copyright is not theft ©
Nina Paley (design);
Kippelboy (photo); CC-
BY-SA
commons.wikimedia.org
2500 Creative
Commons
Licenses ©
qthomasbower,
CC-BY-SA
flickr.com
HoA lantern slide
collection photo ©
Vicky Brown
H Braun, Detail of
Sistine Chapel
Ceiling, autotype,
HoA Department
H M J Underhill,
Nettlebed Windmill,
Oxon, May 20
1907,glass plate slide,
HoA Department
Ellis Waterhouse,
Marble Hill House,
Twickenham,
35mm slide, HoA
Department
Sandro Botticelli,
Calumny of
Apelles, Florence,
Uffizi, © Bridgeman
Education
Eric Ravilious,
HMS Ark Royal in
Action, © Imperial War
Museum, Art.IWM ART
LD 284
Çanlı Church at Akhisar
village near Aksaray,
Turkey © Roman
Neumuller, CC-BY-SA,
commons.wikimedia.org
Postcard to Lady
Colefax from ‘Eddy’
Sackville-West, 27
December 1947, HoA
Department
Archive file register, photo
by Tenmei, PD
Commons.wikimedia.org
Lady Myres in Pompeii
posing for her husband, Sir
John Myres, c.1900. ©
Institute of Archaeology,
University of Oxford

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VRA 2014 Case Studies International Copyright Brown

  • 1. Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator Visual Resources Centre, History of Art Department March 14, 2014 Case Studies in International Copyright Compliance “The Oxford Experience”
  • 2. Copyright in the UK - background
  • 3. Copyright & Education in the UK Fair dealing (vs. fair use) Copyright exceptions Copyright licences
  • 4. Keeping up in the digital age
  • 5. Preparing course content: prescribed images ARTstor & Bridgeman Education Museums, Galleries & Archives Creative Commons licenced images
  • 6. The CLA Licence Preparing course content continued…
  • 8. Training, advice & support Publishing via the Oxford Research Archive Sourcing images from libraries, archives and museums Receiving regular updates
  • 9. Why international copyright? Citizenship & community Collaboration & productivity Control & censorship
  • 10. To summarise… Copyright with care Compliance requires patience Copyright awareness
  • 11. Sources and references Fair dealing ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exception/c-exception-review/c-exception- fairdealing.htm Copyright exceptions: ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exception.htm Copyright users: copyrightuser.org/ 1709 copyright blog: http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/ UKeIG Copyright News Update: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/content/copyright-news- update ARTstor: artstor.org Imperial War Museum: iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright/licence Creative Commons Search: search.creativecommons.org/ CLA HE licence: he.cla.co.uk/ HEIR project: arch.ox.ac.uk/HEIR.html Oxford Research Archive: ora.ox.ac.uk/ JISCMAIL lists: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ LIBER Position Statement: http://libereurope.eu/position-statement-copyright-reform
  • 12. Picture credits Large copyright sign made of jigsaw puzzle pieces from Flickr.com © Horia Varlan – CC- BY © Newtown Graffiti, CC-BY Flickr.com © Luke Surl, CC- BY-NC-SA lukesurl.com/comi c/614-on-the- download Braun photographs, photo © Vicky Brown GLAM camp NYC 2011 - copyright is not theft © Nina Paley (design); Kippelboy (photo); CC- BY-SA commons.wikimedia.org 2500 Creative Commons Licenses © qthomasbower, CC-BY-SA flickr.com HoA lantern slide collection photo © Vicky Brown H Braun, Detail of Sistine Chapel Ceiling, autotype, HoA Department H M J Underhill, Nettlebed Windmill, Oxon, May 20 1907,glass plate slide, HoA Department Ellis Waterhouse, Marble Hill House, Twickenham, 35mm slide, HoA Department Sandro Botticelli, Calumny of Apelles, Florence, Uffizi, © Bridgeman Education Eric Ravilious, HMS Ark Royal in Action, © Imperial War Museum, Art.IWM ART LD 284 Çanlı Church at Akhisar village near Aksaray, Turkey © Roman Neumuller, CC-BY-SA, commons.wikimedia.org Postcard to Lady Colefax from ‘Eddy’ Sackville-West, 27 December 1947, HoA Department Archive file register, photo by Tenmei, PD Commons.wikimedia.org Lady Myres in Pompeii posing for her husband, Sir John Myres, c.1900. © Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford

Notas del editor

  1. As I mentioned earlier, my role extends to providing training and advice in sourcing and using images and this of course takes in copyright.So we guide students through the maze that is clearing third party rights - when not covered under the exception of criticism or review - on content they prepare for their doctoral theses, when publishing online through the University’s institutional repository, ORA (a mandatory requirement).We help undergraduates negotiate with archives, libraries and museums for images for their theses and help staff and students more generally with any other copyright-related issues around the topic of images.In return I get help and support from library colleagues here in Oxford, but also elsewhere from HE institutions & support services across the UK – this via closed discussion lists and by attending briefings and training sessions. We are also facing changes in the UK and Europe as copyright is finally facing reform. As early as next month, we may be looking at the introduction of new copyright exceptions, covering the use of images in the classroom and the preservation of library and archival content. This is then an exciting yet unnerving time – if individuals are given more freedom in teaching environments, will the need for them to turn to the VRCs, libraries and learning centres fade away? Or will we become less like gate keepers and more like facilitators? Only time will tell.
  2. But returning to my earlier question, why should you be interested in any of this? we don’t live in a vacuum - the web knows no frontierswe have a duty to make ourselves aware of the differences in nations’ copyright laws, if only a basic understandingas we collaborate more and more with international partners, this type of knowledge becomes ever more essential or we risk relationships and productivity breaking down: as LIBER stated in their statement on Copyright in the Digital Age, where legal uncertainty exists, “This hinders the circulation of knowledge and its creation; blunting the impact of infrastructures which have been developed to support collaboration and innovation.”
  3. So, to conclude: We are not completely impeded when it comes to copyright in education in the UK, but one needs to be on top of it to ensure continued compliance. There are ways to provide content legally, but they can be labour intensive and this can slow down projects and productivityWe all have a duty to inform ourselves about differences in copyright laws, especially when we are working across legal jurisdictions. Thank you!