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Session 9. Copyright and Open Access for Digital Cultural Heritage

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Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018, 16h00 (UK time)

Session coordinator: Gabriel Bodard (University of London), Emma Payne (King's College London), Andrea Wallace (Exeter)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/esoKjJgDx4Y

Slides:

Outline

The seminar will start discussing the various copyright considerations that must be taken into account during the digitisation of material collections and outlining the various layers of restrictions which might arise during user engagement with digital surrogates. We will then talk, more in detail, about the publication of images and interpretation of the terms ‘fair dealing’ and ‘commercial’ vs ‘non-commercial’.

Required readings

  • G. Petri (2014). "The Public Domain vs. the Museum: The Limits of Copyright and Reproductions of Two-dimensional Works of Art." Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies 12(1), Art. 8. Available: http://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.1021217

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Further reading

Other resources

Essay title

Exercise

Compare the copyright information available on these couples of digital projects. How easy is to retrieve such information? How clear are the terms? What they allow, and what they encourage, the users to do with their material? How does the copyright status of the digital documents affect the "ethos" of the project? Case studies:

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