Essential Copyright for Information Professionals: What You Need to Know – and Preparing for Change!
Venue and date
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Tuesday, 17th March 2009, 9.30-16.15
Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£ 164.50); others £170 + VAT (£ 199.75)
Course Outline
Copyright remains one of the most challenging legal issues for information professionals in all areas of the information industries. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexity of the subject. It will cover all essential aspects of copyright and associated rights. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of copyright. Woven into the sessions will be the latest information on forthcoming changes to UK law on copyright and how you need to understand and prepare for them now . Understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples of copyright issues. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of contexts.
The sessions will include:
Copyright – what is it, how does it arise and how long does it last?
Ownership of copyright
Categories of copyright works
The rights of the copyright owner
Permitted acts and exceptions to copyright
Database right
Moral rights
Licensing schemes for education, commercial and business organisations
Overview of copyright in the digital environment
The Gowers Review – Planning for Change: a special, dedicated session on how the likely reforms to UK law currently under implementation from the Gowers Review will affect you, and how will you benefit. What do you need to be doing now?
The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.
Presenter
Laurence Bebbington is Faculty Team Leader (Social Sciences, Law and Education) and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham . He has presented papers and led seminars on various aspects of legal issues in information work. He has published various articles and papers and is a joint editor (with C.J. Armstrong) and contributor to the 2 nd edition of Staying Legal: A Guide To Issues And Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors , FACET (2003)
Further details are available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/March/EssentialCopyright2009-03-17.html