Provides practical, pragmatic advice, within an understanding of the legal framework, on how to license copyright works, who to approach, how best to approach them and how to negotiate the best deal.
This section on copyright is intended to provide an overview to copyright in the UK and to answer many of the questions CLA receives from organisations and individuals.
JISC Casper is a social networking application for copyright professionals and educational institutions to discuss e-copyright issues.
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The Internet and technology have transformed how people learn. Educational resources are no longer static and scarce, but digital and freely accessible. Teachers and learners everywhere can access world-class materials and participate in their creation and evolution. The potential impact of digitally enabled education is huge, but is also hindered by current legal and technical restrictions. Creative Commons provides the tools necessary to overcome these restrictions, opening up educational resources so that they are not only accessible, but adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable - helping to realize the full benefits of digitally enabled education.
Those involved in the creation of teaching and learning materials will be interested in the Copyright Toolkit produced by Scotland's Colleges. Scotland's Colleges exists to support, represent and promote the Scottish college sector. The updated toolkit is designed to be a group of free-standing tools that users will keep coming back to. The toolkit is to be updated on a regular basis. It includes a specific "Guide to Music Licensing" as well as a section headed "Ten Ways to Stay Out of Jail".
This module, divided into six themed learning objects, can help guide users through the key IPR and licensing issues that they are likely to encounter when creating, using or providing access to digital content. Users are taken through the issues within an interactive, dynamic and learning-driven platform, to help them understand the background and context to each issue as well as provided with links to the relevant tools within the SCA IPR and Licensing Toolkit and other relevant resources. All the learning objects have been supplemented with multi-media components and associated transcripts to aid accessibility and different learning styles, as well as downloadable Powerpoints of each learning module.