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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
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 in training or for personal study
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
Data protection protects the rights iof individuals over their personal information, particularly data should only be used for the purposes for which it has been gathered and should be held appropriately securely.
h2. Freedom Of Information
"Freedom Of Information Act 2000":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents
Freedom of information gives people the right to request data held by public bodies - it is not a question of who originated the data, rather a question of who holds it.
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
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 in training or for personal study
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
Data protection protects the rights iof individuals over their personal information, particularly data should only be used for the purposes for which it has been gathered and should be held appropriately securely.
h2. Freedom Of Information
"Freedom Of Information Act 2000":http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents
Freedom of information gives people the right to request data held by public bodies - it is not a question of who originated the data, rather a question of who holds it.
h2. Files