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Have your say on Copyright
The UK Intellectual Property Office has announced a consultation on the findings of the Hargreaves Report. This includes many issues which affect the services and activities of Special Collections,...
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Modernising Copyright: the White Paper is published
Important and good news for UK special collections services and their users. The UK government has just published the final part of its response to consultations following the Hargreaves review of...
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Manuscripts Online! And in the Public Domain …
“My vision then of a future manuscript catalogue would be of something that links together a wide range of resources … anchored by the record of the physical manuscript itself …” Detail of a miniature...
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Five Theses on the Future of Special Collections
“Preservation without use is an empty victory. It ought to be our primary purpose at all times to minimize barriers to use …” “[It is] crucial to reach out and demystify special collections, to convey...
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Thank you to Tim Padfield
No!!!!! The cry rose up from record offices and other archives across the land and emails and tweets flew, as archivists took in the message. On 23 April Tim Padfield, copyright expert at the...
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Joyful June: copyright law to change for the better
This June, copyright changes for the better! LOOOONG-awaited changes to copyright exceptions are bringing complex and outdated legislation into line with the needs of modern teaching and research....
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Free your Orphans!
Struggling with copyright? You’re not alone. Archives in the UK contain millions of “orphans”. These works are in copyright but the rights holder(s) are unknown or untraceable so we cannot get...
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