For public bodies, understanding the implications and roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing in their capacity as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of digital content is essential in their role in the digital content lifecycle from creation to curation, to ensure that they can deliver publically funded content. Three briefing papers have been prepared by Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance, so that public sector agencies can learn more about IPR management on an operational and strategic level as well as having links to sources of other essential information.
Archive for October 13th, 2009
Ithaka S+R has completed a multi-year investigation of innovative funding models to sustain digital projects, culminating in a summary paper and twelve detailed case studies. Now, Ithaka has produced three briefing papers for use across the public sector, highlighting suggestions drawn from this project, and suggesting how the examples provided by some of the case studies might be useful to specific professional areas of digital content creation and curation.