Delegates are starting to gather here in the Park Plaza Hotel in Cardiff for the SCA Wales Forum. The event will be opened by Leighton Andrews AM, Deputy Minister for Regeneration at the Welsh Assembly Government (pictured, right) and then the programme will cover:
- New Opportunities for Copyright Reform and the Changing Legal Landscape: Professor Charles Oppenheim
- NHS and HE partnership in Wales and what this could mean for other cross sector collaboration: Janet Peters, University of Cardiff
- Case Study (JISC Collections) The e-Books Observatory Project, CIBER and new technologies: Caren Milloy, JISC Collections
- Hosted Digital Repositories – implications for Wales and the other home nations: Neil Jacobs, JISC
- BBC UK CenturyShare – Cross Sector Collaboration in Action and Welsh Involvement: Simon Delafond, BBC
- Business Models and Sustainability, SCA Business Models and Sustainability: Nancy Moran (by phone), Ithaka
- Closing remarks and Future Plans in developing the UK Content Framework
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The Strategic Content Alliance sponsors are delighted to be able to invite interested parties to a peer review event on Monday, 3 November 2008 at 13.00-16.30. The event brings together some of UK’s leading IPR and licensing specialists working in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
It aims to peer review documentation, in the form of an IPR toolkit for public sector bodies which has been produced as part the Strategic Content Alliance’s IPR and licensing work which is being led by Naomi Korn and Professor Charles Oppenheim. The workshop will comment upon the work that has been produced; identify gaps; recommend additional work where necessary; and provide an opportunity for presentations about other aspects of the SCA’s IPR and Licensing work, including:
- Case Studies Mapping the Flow of Value, Content and Rights
- In From the Cold: Survey of Works where Rights Holders are Unknown or Cannot be Traced
- Updates about the Gowers Review of IP and the EC Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.
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