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h1. Legislation
(part of [[WP1_1_Research_Of_Available_Resources]])
JISC "Web2 Rights":http://www.web2rights.org.uk/documents.html
"JISC Legal":http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/
h2. Copyright
"Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents
Fair dealing / fair use
Use in "education":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/part/I/chapter/III/crossheading/education
Lots of fact sheets at "The UK Copyright Service":http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk
Includes the "Top 10 Copyright Myths":http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/copyright_myths
"UK Intellectual Property Office":http://www.ipo.gov.uk has a "page on copyright":http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htm including a downloadable booklet.
"Pay The Piper":http://www.paythepiper.co.uk has a post explaining "music copyright":http://www.paythepiper.co.uk/copyright.asp
bq. If you compose a completely original piece of music then it is your own property - you own the copyright, in other words.
bq. 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":http://www.paythepiper.co.uk/copyright.asp though
"Music Publishers Association - MPA":http://www.mpaonline.org.uk/licensing-music-copyrights
"Performing Rights Society - PRS":http://www.prsformusic.com
"Guide to Copyright in Schools":http://www.licensing-copyright.org/index.html
Australian IP law "blog posts":http://www.dilanchian.com.au re. media and copyright. Includes:
* "Digital music technology and copyright timeline":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202:digital-music-technology-and-copyright-timeline&catid=5:ip-tech-a-e-biz&Itemid=144
* "Are adaptations of copyright work legal?":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=502:are-adaptations-of-copyright-work-legal&catid=23:ip&Itemid=114
* "Music formats and law: commercialisation of 45-rpm records":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196:music-formats-and-law-commercialisation-of-45-rpm-records&catid=23&Itemid=114
* "Creative Commons licences are useful but oversold":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233:creative-commons-licences-are-useful-but-oversold&catid=5:ip-tech-a-e-biz&Itemid=144
US articles from Public Domain Sherpa "Tutorial on Copyright and the Public Domain":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/copyright-public-domain.html
* "What makes a derivative work":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/derivative-work.html
??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":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/compilation.html
??compilations are (c) if they show minimal creativity?? (e.g. not just all works by someone or by date)
* "Copyright Renewal":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/copyright-renewal.html
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":http://www.copyright.gov/records/ for works from 1950-1963,
CHM Super Sound (a South Pacific record company) "state that":http://www.chmsupersound.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170:theadaptationanduseofcopyrighttunesandmelodiesbypngmusicians-&catid=1:latest&Itemid=7 :
bq. 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.
h2. Data Protection
"Data Protection Act 1998":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents
h2. Freedom Of Information
"Freedom Of Information Act 2000":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents
h2. Files
(part of [[WP1_1_Research_Of_Available_Resources]])
JISC "Web2 Rights":http://www.web2rights.org.uk/documents.html
"JISC Legal":http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/
h2. Copyright
"Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents
Fair dealing / fair use
Use in "education":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/part/I/chapter/III/crossheading/education
Lots of fact sheets at "The UK Copyright Service":http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk
Includes the "Top 10 Copyright Myths":http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/copyright_myths
"UK Intellectual Property Office":http://www.ipo.gov.uk has a "page on copyright":http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htm including a downloadable booklet.
"Pay The Piper":http://www.paythepiper.co.uk has a post explaining "music copyright":http://www.paythepiper.co.uk/copyright.asp
bq. If you compose a completely original piece of music then it is your own property - you own the copyright, in other words.
bq. 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":http://www.paythepiper.co.uk/copyright.asp though
"Music Publishers Association - MPA":http://www.mpaonline.org.uk/licensing-music-copyrights
"Performing Rights Society - PRS":http://www.prsformusic.com
"Guide to Copyright in Schools":http://www.licensing-copyright.org/index.html
Australian IP law "blog posts":http://www.dilanchian.com.au re. media and copyright. Includes:
* "Digital music technology and copyright timeline":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202:digital-music-technology-and-copyright-timeline&catid=5:ip-tech-a-e-biz&Itemid=144
* "Are adaptations of copyright work legal?":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=502:are-adaptations-of-copyright-work-legal&catid=23:ip&Itemid=114
* "Music formats and law: commercialisation of 45-rpm records":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196:music-formats-and-law-commercialisation-of-45-rpm-records&catid=23&Itemid=114
* "Creative Commons licences are useful but oversold":http://www.dilanchian.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233:creative-commons-licences-are-useful-but-oversold&catid=5:ip-tech-a-e-biz&Itemid=144
US articles from Public Domain Sherpa "Tutorial on Copyright and the Public Domain":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/copyright-public-domain.html
* "What makes a derivative work":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/derivative-work.html
??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":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/compilation.html
??compilations are (c) if they show minimal creativity?? (e.g. not just all works by someone or by date)
* "Copyright Renewal":http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/copyright-renewal.html
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":http://www.copyright.gov/records/ for works from 1950-1963,
CHM Super Sound (a South Pacific record company) "state that":http://www.chmsupersound.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170:theadaptationanduseofcopyrighttunesandmelodiesbypngmusicians-&catid=1:latest&Itemid=7 :
bq. 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.
h2. Data Protection
"Data Protection Act 1998":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents
h2. Freedom Of Information
"Freedom Of Information Act 2000":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents
h2. Files