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.
Background
The Strategic Content Alliance is developing an e-Content Framework for the UK public and not-for-profit sectors. This will include a set of principals; case studies; exemplars; synthesis of documentation; and links to advisory services covering the e-content life-cycle from conception to curation.
The primary audience for this Framework covers cultural heritage; education and research; health; and public service broadcasting. It will be delivered via a presentation layer reflecting these stakeholder groups. It will be supported by events to disseminate “best practice” aimed at enhancing skills development in specific areas such as IPR and licensing via existing services and cross sector events.
Case Studies: Mapping the flow of Content, Value and Rights across the Public Sector
As part of the SCA IPR and Licensing work, Dr Prodromos Tsiavos of the London School of Economics has been working with the SCA IPR Consultants to conduct a series of case studies in order to map the flow of content, value and rights across the public sector. This work will provide an interoperable blue print for the flow of rights, value and content across the Public Sector indicating points of tension and convergence the initial results from which will be presented on the day.
In From the Cold: Survey of Works where Rights Holders are Unknown or Cannot be Traced
Orphan Works – works for which the rights holder cannot be traced or are unknown, present one of the most significant barriers in the provision of access to content across the Public Sector, and hence the growth of the Knowledge Economy. Currently there is almost no systematic evidence of the scale of the Orphan Works problem. This lack of evidence is preventing the SCA stakeholder communities from exploring potential solutions, whether legislatively or through collective approaches to licensing and indemnity. This situation also presents a considerable challenge for the responsible management of our nation’s cultural heritage. It inhibits the realisation of e-content potential and consequently places constraints both on public access and on the participation of public sector bodies in the Knowledge Economy.
“In from the Cold”, is a collaborative project between the SCA and Collections Trust, whose purpose is to:
· Define the impact of Orphan Works on Public Sector service delivery;
· Research the scale and scope of the problem across the SCA communities;
· Provide qualitative evidence of how access to and use of content are inhibited
· Raise the profile of the issue through strategic advocacy and press relations
The aim of the project is to inform the future development of the work of the SCA by quantifying the issue of works for which the rights holders cannot be traced or unknown, raising the public and political profile of the issue and providing an indication of the level of resource required to resolve it.
SCA IPR and licensing excellence gateway peer review workshopThe event will take place at the JISC Meeting Rooms, Ground Floor, Brettenham House (South Entrance), 5 Lancaster Place, London WC2E 7EN http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus/findus/london
The JISC will reimburse standard class rail travel and economy class flights – please book the cheapest route/ticket. The event will commence with a light lunch at 13.00 – providing an excellent networking opportunity.
You can register for the event at http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/iprpeerreview/ Places are limited so we advise a prompt response as places are on a first come first served basis.
Draft documentation
In advance of the workshop, we are delighted to make available the draft IPR toolkit for your comments. It consists of:
* Briefing Paper on Creative Commons Licences
* Draft Institutional IPR Policy Statements
* Getting Permissions Paper
* IPR Licensing Blue Print for Funding Bodies and Recipients of Funding
* IPR Model Consent Form
* IPR Model Licence
* IPR Risk Assessments, Rights Clearance and Rights Management
* Template Email Permission Form
* Terminology Toolkit Paper
* Top Tips for Issuing Licences
* Top Tips for Requesting Licences
* IPR and Web2.0 Factsheet
* IPR and Legal Issues Factsheet
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