Legislation¶

(part of WP1_1_Research_Of_Available_Resources)

JISC Web2 Rights
JISC Legal

Copyright¶

UK¶

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

PRS - Performing Rights Society - FAQ, includes details on copyright

Abroad¶

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.

University of Washington Copyright Connection

WIPO Understanding Copyright and Related Rights

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

Chord Progressions and Copyright:

• LegaliBlog
• Essential Secrets of Song Writing blog"

Data Protection¶

Data Protection Act 1998

Freedom Of Information¶

Freedom Of Information Act 2000

Files¶