For public bodies, understanding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing is essential to their role as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of publicly funded digital content.

This means that at an operational and strategic level, it is essential that the management of copyright and other IPR form part of the digitisation life cycle and are included in key project management planning and decisions.

Issues that may require particular consideration are:

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• Permissions required for the digitisation/use of third party content and the organisational resources required to seek such permissions
• Management of works where rights holders are unknown or cannot be traced (‘orphan works’)
• How end users will be able to engage and re-use or re-purpose the content

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The IPR toolkit and associated material provides resources that staff working with digital content can use to help them deal with the IPR and licensing issues which might arise. This essential toolkit, which is being continually updated, has been developed for customisation and adaptation to suit specific needs and requirements.

The Intellectual Property Rights toolkit and associated material has been developed for the Strategic Content Alliance by our IPR consultants, Professor Charles Oppenheim and Naomi Korn.

IPR themes

The tools, case studies, reports and videos that have been produced to aid understanding around IPR have been split up by theme below:

Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights

Creative Commons Licenses

Orphan Works and Risk Management

The Digital Economy Act

Accessing and Using Third Party Content

Protecting and managing rights- IPR Policy

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Licensing publications

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• Video Lecture Series: IPR and Sustainability for Universities (April 2012)
• Video Lecture Series: IPR and Sustainability for Libraries (April 2012)
• Video Lecture Series: IPR and Sustainability for Museums (April 2012)
• SCA IPR elearning modules (April 2011)
• Orphan works poster
  (March 2011)
• Briefing Paper on Managing Orphan Works
  (March 2011)
• Template Notice and Take Down Policy and Procedure
  (March 2011)
• Overview of the ‘Openness’ of Licences to Provide Access to Materials, Data, Databases and Media
  (January 2011)
• Briefing Paper on Embedding Creative Commons Licences into Digital Resources (June 2010)
• Practical Suggestions to Remain Compliant with the Digital Economy Act (June 2010)
• IPR Navigation Map
  (September 2009)
• IPR Toolkit Introduction and Overview (September 2009)
• IPR Toolkit: Section 1: Background papers (September 2009)
• IPR Toolkit – Section 2: Practical Tools (September 2009)
• IPR Toolkit- Section 3: Template policy statements (September 2009)
• In from the Cold: An assessment of the scope of ‘orphan works’ and its impact on the delivery of services to the public (April 2009)
• Case Studies Mapping the Flows of Content, Value and Rights across the Public Sector- FULL REPORT
  (March 2009)
• Case Studies Mapping the Flows of Content, Value and Rights across the Public Sector- FULL REPORT (March 2009)
• 1.1: Creative Commons Licences – Briefing Paper (March 2009)
• 1.2: Web 2.0 and IP Factsheet (March 2009)
• 1.3: Web 2.0 and Legal Issues Factsheet (March 2009)
• 2.1: Getting Permissions (March 2009)
• 2.2: IPR Risk Assessments (March 2009)
• 2.3: Terminology Toolkit (March 2009)
• 2.4: Top Tips for Issuing Licences to Third Parties wishing to Use Your Content (March 2009)
• 2.5: Top Tips for Requesting Licences from Third Parties whose Content You Wish to Use (March 2009)
• 2.6: IPR Model Consent Form (March 2009)
• 2.7: Model Licence (March 2009)
• 2.8: Template Email Permission Form (March 2009)
• 2.9: Template Permission Letter (March 2009)
• 2.10: Rights Management (March 2009)
• 2.11: FAQs (March 2009)
• 2.12: Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Staff (March 2009)
• 2.13: Example Consortium Agreement (March 2009)
• 2.14: Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Students/Volunteers (March 2009)
• 2.15: Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Freelancers/Subcontractors (March 2009)
• 2.16: Model Terms and Conditions of Service (March 2009)
• 3.1: Draft Institutional IPR Policy Statement for SCA – Members and Other Organisations across the Public Sector (March 2009)
• 3.2: IPR and Licensing Blueprint for Funding Bodies and Funding Recipients – A draft discussion paper (March 2009)
• An Introduction to the Strategic Content Alliance IPR and Licensing Toolkit for Senior Managers (2009)
• An Introduction to the Strategic Content Alliance IPR and Licensing Toolkit for Senior Managers (2009)
• An Introduction to the Strategic Content Alliance IPR and Licensing Toolkit for Human Resources Staff (2009)
• An Introduction to the Strategic Content Alliance IPR and Licensing Toolkit for Archivists, Librarians, Curators and Digital Project Leaders (2009)

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