"Driving UK Research - Is copyright a help or a hindrance - A perspective from the research community" has been published by the British Library.

The document includes a call for...

"an extension to fair dealing provisions under UK copyright law to bring them into line with fair use doctrine in the US."

The document, which will be of interest to all those working in FE and HE, can be accessed in pdf format on the British Library website at - http://www.bl.uk/ip/pdf/dri...

JISC Legal release copyright advice on lecture recording

The paper from JISC Legal regarding rights issues and lecture recordings is now available to download from their website.

The document outlines and discusses all of the rights that are generated in a lecture recording, such as...

• performance rights;
  
• recordists' rights; and
  
• the rights of the intellectual property of the content.
  

The section on copyright exceptions and interpretation of the law in this area is interesting. I ha...