This is your opportunity to make your voice heard at Westminster and Brussels. In 2009 the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and the Collections Trust (CT) published one of the few empirical pieces of evidence – In From the Cold – on the scale and impact of orphan works (works for which the rights holders are [...]
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Workshop review: Data and Text Mining and Analytics – Opportunities for Digital Scholarship and Innovation
This workshop aimed to explore the opportunities for data and text mining and analytics from some of the UK’s leading advocates and practitioners and to highlight emergent policy and practice issues in education, research, technology and pharmaceutical industries. It also provided a forum to review and discuss the opportunities and challenges of data and text [...]
Strategic Content Alliance Funding Opportunities 2011/12
The Strategic Content Alliance is pleased to announce funding opportunites in the following areas: JISC ITT Strategic Content Alliance: Digital Content Sustainability Syllabus Development The JISC, on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) invites tenders to create a syllabus of open digital resources and related training courses. This syllabus is intended to foster the [...]
SCA welcomes the Hargreaves Report
The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is delighted that the Government has decided to endorse all the recommendations made by Professor Ian Hargreaves outlined within his independent review of Intellectual Property (IP) and Growth. Stuart Dempster (Director, SCA) gives some personal thoughts on what this will mean for public bodies, business and the public
News: SCA supports recommendations outlined in the Hargreaves Review of IP
Yesterday the Hargreaves Review of IP, charged with independently reviewing how the Intellectual Property (IP) framework supports growth and innovation (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-finalreport.pdf), reported its recommendations. The fundamental aim of the consultation was to identify barriers to growth within the IP framework, which consists of the rules and regulations covering how IP is created, used and [...]
Digital Economy Act: latest news
Naomi Korn, the Strategic Content Alliance’s IPR consultant, writes: A judicial review of the measures to tackle online copyright infringement within the Digital Economy Act, which has been brought by BT and Talk Talk, has just ruled in favour of the Government. BT and Talk Talk claimed that the measures in the Digital Economy Act [...]
New IPR e-learning module
Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR? A new elearning module from the Strategic Content Alliance is to help update people dealing with intellectual property rights in universities, colleges, museums, libraries and other public bodies. Access the module at http://www.web2rights.com/SCAIPRModule
New: Managing Orphan Works
Managing Orphan Works is a new section of the Strategic Content Alliance blog dedicated to the publications and tools the Alliance had produced to explain and offer practical advice on a sometimes very complex issue. Managing Orphan Works includes research, briefing papers, template notices and posters, along with a short explanation of how they can [...]
Orphan Works mentioned in UK ‘Plan for Growth’
According to HM Treasury/BIS’s document Plan for Growth, published today, the UK government is to consider simplifying payments for copyright materials and freeing up orphan works. The relevant sections are: In response to the Hargreaves recommendations, due in April 2011, the Government will consider simplifying payments for copyright materials and freeing up orphan works. The [...]
Intellectual Property Rights Inquiry – deadline for written evidence extended
In November 2010, the Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport called for evidence-based responses to the Digital Economy Act, 2010 (DEA). Due in part perhaps to the reaction of the creative industries and cultural heritage sector as well as higher education to the DEA, the Select Committee has been asked in investigate to [...]
