A-Z Common Reference Questions for Academic Librarians

As an archivist or records manager it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers has been described as an ?€˜unparalleled?€™ resource for that purpose.

What is copyright? Who owns it and for how long? What rights does it confer, and what are the limitations and exceptions? This comprehensive manual uniquely outlines copyright law in the UK with special reference to the unpublished materials commonly found in archive and records collections such as maps, legal records, records of local authorities and parish registers. It also gives comprehensive information on authorship and duration of copyright in older as well as modern works and on the wide range of exceptions and limitations to copyright, particularly those relevant to archivists, records managers, librarians and curators. It offers advice on rights in the electronic environment, moral rights and rights in databases and contains extensive tables of duration of copyright in other countries.

The sixth edition of this respected work has been extensively revised and updated, in particular by:

• revision of the commentaries on the nature of originality in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and of a substantial part of a copyright work

• updating of the explanation of how a work of overseas origin qualifies for copyright protection in the UK, to reflect changes to the legislation

• revision of the commentaries on publication, issue of copies to the public and communication to the public

• more explanation of the exceptions for quotation, text and data mining, disability, rental and lending, education, broadcasts, access to digital material on the premises and the publication of older unpublished works

• updating of the charts for the duration of copyright where countries have amended their legislation

Readership: This book will be useful reading for all archivists and records managers; LIS professionals in libraries, museums and galleries; students, researchers and genealogists.

Acknowledgements

A-Z List of entries

Accountancy

Acronyms and Abbreviations

African Studies

Anthropology

Archives

Art and Design

Asian Studies

Banking and finance

Biographical Information

Biology

Book Reviews

Blogging

Careers and employability

Charities

Chemistry

Citing, Referencing and plagiarism

Citizenship

Classical studies

Company and Stock Market Information

Computing and ICT

Copyright

Country Information

Courses

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Current Awareness

Data / Text Mining / Data visualisation

Development Studies

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Disabled Students

Electronic books

Early Career researchers

East Europe and Russian Studies

Economics

Economic History

Education

Elections

Electronic Journals

Engineering

English Literature

Environment and conservation

European Union

Films, Documentaries and Moving Images

Fod science and agriculture

Foreign Languages

Freedom of Information Requests

Gender studies including feminism, and women?€™s studies

Geography

Government Publications

Grants and Funding

Grey Literature

Higher and further Education

History

Human Rights

Images and Photographs

Impact measurement

Information Literacy

International Organisations

International Relations

International security and wars

Internet searching

International Students

Journal Articles

Latin American Studies

Law

Legislation

LGBT studies

Library Catalogues

Literature Searching

Management

Mapping services

Market Research/ opinion polls

Marketing

Mathematics

Media and film Studies

Medical science and Nursing

Middle East Studies

Music

News resources

Open Access

Parliaments / Parliamentary Proceedings

Performing Arts, including theatre/ drama

Philosophy

Physics

Political Science

Population and demography

Presentation Skills

Professional associations, trade unions

Project Management

Publishing

Reference Management Tools

Religion and Theology

Research data Management

Research methods

Research students

Social Media

Social Policy

Speeches and quotations

Sport and Leisure studies

Standards

Statistical Data

Study Skills

Systematic reviews

Teaching

Theses and Dissertations

Think Tanks/ Policy Institutes

Tourism and Hospitality

Treaties

United Nations

Writing and style guides

Heather Dawson is an Academic Support Librarian in the Information Services Department of the LSE Library and the author of the Facet Publishing book, Know it All, Find it Fast for Academic Libraries (2011).

Preface

Key points

1. What is copyright?

1. 1 The nature of copyright

1. 2 The development of copyright

1. 3 Copyright and records

2. Copyright protection

2. 1 Protection for works

2. 2 Literary, dramatic and musical works

2. 3 Artistic works

2. 4 Films

2. 5 Sound recordings

2. 6 Other works

3. Ownership

3. 1 Qualification

3. 2 First owner

3. 3 Acquisition of copyright

3. 4 Assertion of ownership

4. Publication, exhibition and performance

4. 1 Publication

4. 2 Exhibition and performance

5. Use

5. 1 The copyright owner?€™s rights and infringement of them

5. 2 Permission

5. 3 Exceptions and limitations

5. 4 Copying in archives, libraries and museums

5. 5 Litigation and legal advice

6. Copyright in the electronic environment

6. 1 Introduction

6. 2 Internet

6. 3 Electronic mail and social media

6. 4 Databases

6. 5 Records in the electronic environment

6. 6 Computers and computer programs

7. Special cases

7. 1 British Isles outside the UK

7. 2 Records of a repository?€™s parent institution or authority

7. 3 Gifts and deposits of records

7. 4 Public records

7. 5 Records of local authorities

7. 6 Records of ecclesiastical and religious bodies

7. 7 Legal records

7. 8 Electoral registers

7. 9 Business records

7. 10 Estate, manorial and personal records

7. 11 Hospital and medical records

7. 12 Transport records

7. 13 Office-holders, members and unincorporated bodies

7. 14 Maps, charts and plans, together with engravings and prints

7. 15 Legal deposit

8. Other intellectual property rights

8. 1 Moral rights

8. 2 Databases and database right

8. 3 Publication right

8. 4 Public Lending Right

8. 5 Performers?€™ rights

8. 6 Designs, patents and trade marks

8. 7 Confidentiality

8. 8 Artist?€™s resale right (droit de suite)

9. Appendix

9. 1 Charts and tables for the duration of copyright

9. 2 Copyright Declarations

9. 3 Model licences

9. 4 Model assignment to the record office

10. Bibliography

10. 1 Documents

10. 2 Books

10. 3 Useful websites

11. Authorities

11. 1 Treaties and EU instruments

11. 2 Statutes

11. 3 Statutory instruments

11. 4 Cases

Index

Tim Padfield MA LLM worked at The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) for over thirty years before his retirement in

2013. He is a specialist in copyright, with particular reference to unpublished materials and has a postgraduate law degree, with merit. He is a past chair of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance on which he represents the Archives and Records Association and is adviser on copyright to the Bodleian Libraries.