Legislation¶

(part of WP1_1_Research_Of_Available_Resources)

JISC Web2 Rights
JISC Legal

Copyright¶

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Fair dealing / fair use

Use in education

Lots of fact sheets at The UK Copyright Service

Includes the Top 10 Copyright Myths

UK Intellectual Property Office has a page on copyright including a downloadable booklet.

Pay The Piper has a post explaining music copyright

If you compose a completely original piece of music then it is your own property - you own the copyright, in other words.

Arranging existing music is fraught with difficulties. To put it very simply (and this is indeed a gross simplification) until the composer has been dead for seventy years his music is copyright and you may not make a written arrangement of it without permission.

...lots more good info on the page though

Music Publishers Association - MPA

Performing Rights Society - PRS

Guide to Copyright in Schools

Australian IP law blog posts re. media and copyright. Includes:

• Digital music technology and copyright timeline
• Are adaptations of copyright work legal?
• Music formats and law: commercialisation of 45-rpm records
• Creative Commons licences are useful but oversold

US articles from Public Domain Sherpa Tutorial on Copyright and the Public Domain

• What makes a derivative work
  derivative must use enough of the prior work that the average person would conclude that it had been based on or adapted from the prior work
• Compilations
  compilations are (c) if they show minimal creativity (e.g. not just all works by someone or by date)
• Copyright Renewal
  Many works did not have copyright renewed and therefore went out of copyright and into the public domain in the US - estimated 15% of works had copyright renewed. Renewals will appear in the online US copyright database for works from 1950-1963,

CHM Super Sound (a South Pacific record company) state that :

A melodic phrase of a song is in copyright. The lyrics are in copyright. Chord progressions in a music composition however, are not copyright material.

Data Protection¶

Data Protection Act 1998

Freedom Of Information¶

Freedom Of Information Act 2000

Files¶