果冻影院 Copyright advice

The 果冻影院 Library Services Copyright Team offers information and assistance on a wide range of copyright issues to 果冻影院 students and staff.

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Copyright resources and training opportunities

A selection of useful external online resources.
Training and help from 果冻影院 Library Services.
Copyright for PhD Students, an online booklet explaining copyright essentials: Particularly relevant for PhD and Masters students.

果冻影院 IPR Policy

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Copyright in depth

Our summary of UK Copyright law, highlighting the points you may need to know.

Strange but true

Copyright and OpenEd@果冻影院

Guide for 果冻影院 students听when publishing your work on OpenEd@果冻影院.

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Online teaching and learning: new copyright guidance on using film and other material

"Why can't I use it? I found it on the internet"

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Lobbying for Copyright reform

Copyright blog

Recently we were asked about quotations in a PhD thesis which was about to be submitted for posting in Discovery, 果冻影院鈥檚 open access repository. The student had included a small number of images from published papers by other authors (third party material).

Very sensibly the student had made an initial attempt to seek permission by contacting the publisher in each case but had received no response and was concerned about what to do next. Was permission essential to include these particular images? Again, a sensible question.

18th May 2018

The IPKAT website (and various newspapers) have reported the latest (and final?) stage of the legal disputes surrounding the 鈥淢onkey selfie鈥� case. In 2014 the photographer, David Slater started an action against Wikimedia for copyright infringement following online usage without permission of the photograph of a crested macaque. The macaque had 鈥渙perated鈥� the camera set-up by Mr Slater and taken an impressive selfie.

27th April 2018

People sometimes ask about the copyright issues which might arise if one reproduces the cover of a book on social media. For example you might want to use a copy of the front cover to draw the attention of your particular academic community to a useful publication or you might just want to recommend a book to your friends. There is no doubt that the designs of recent book covers are protected by copyright and the usual rules apply.

9th February 2018

1st December 2017

A 果冻影院 researcher recently asked a series of questions about obtaining copyright permission to reproduce a published psychometric scale in the researcher鈥檚 own paper:

Q. Would the scale itself be protected by copyright?

A. Yes, if it is the original creation of the author(s) it will benefit from copyright protection, in which case permission is required to reuse it lawfully.

Q. What are the copyright implications of translating the scale into another language in order to apply it in a different cultural context?

17th November 2017

A new (the European Alliance for Research Excellence) to the MEPs sitting on the EU Parliament鈥檚 Legal Affairs Committee (JURI Committee) puts the case for a really effective and workable copyright exception for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in Europe.

28th September 2017

The includes an interesting post about a copyright claim brought by a photographer against the well known model, Gigi Hadid. It is alleged that Ms Hadid circulated the photograph of herself to her millions of Instagram followers without seeking permission from the copyright owner (the photographer, Peter Cepeda). One interesting detail is that it is alleged a watermark carrying information on the ownership of the copyright was also removed from the photograph.

27th September 2017

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