New copyright courses
For Spring 2007, we are launching two new copyright training courses. We asked Paul Pedley to explain why and how the copyright landscape is changing.
"In 2005 the Labour Party manifesto promised to modernise copyright and other forms of protection of intellectual property rights so that they are appropriate for the digital age.This resulted in the Gowers Review which published its findings in December 2006. The government accepted all of the review's 54 recommendations. Some can only be implemented if there is international agreement, but the UK government is committed to implementing all which are within their powers to implement, and they are doing so during the period 2007-2008.The UK's Intellectual Property Office is responsible for implementing the majority of the Gowers recommendations. But some are being implemented by other parts of government - such as the DCA, DTI, and Office of Fair Trading. A Gowers Implementation Team has been set up to oversee the implementation process.There are issues around the creation of a digital library which have come to the fore - such as how to deal with "orphan works" (where it isn't possible to identify or else to locate the rightsowner in order to get the necessary permissions) or how to deal with out of print works."
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