Sound Data Management Training

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

h3. UK

"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

"PRS - Performing Rights Society":http://www.prsformusic.com/creators/joiningus/Pages/NewMemberFAQs.aspx - FAQ, includes details on copyright

h3. Abroad

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.

University of Washington "Copyright Connection":http://depts.washington.edu/uwcopy/Copyright_Connection/

WIPO "Understanding Copyright and Related Rights":http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/909/wipo_pub_909.html

"Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works":http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/

Chord Progressions and Copyright:

* "LegaliBlog (AUS)":http://legalit.com.au/legaliblog/?p=28

* "Essential Secrets of Song Writing blog (US?)":http://garyewer.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/can-you-use-someone-elses-chord-progression/"

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