This workshop may be of interest to list members. Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:10:09 +0100 From: Jennie Findlay <[email protected]> Subject: Training event: Keeping Legal: what you can and can't do under copyright law with Professor Charles Oppenheim
Course: Keeping Legal: what you can and can't do under copyright law Venue: The Engine Shed, 19 Saint Leonard's Lane, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH8 9SH (http://www.theengineshed.org/) Trainer: Professor Charles Oppenheim Date: Thursday 10th November 2011 Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm (lunch included) Cost: SLLG member - £75 SLLG non- member - £100 Presented by Charles Oppenheim for the Scottish Law Librarians Group, this course will cover a wide range of copyright issues, in order to aid information professionals to work effectively within the legal limits of copyright law. Charles Oppenheim was until he retired in 2009, Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University and is currently a Visiting Professor at Queensland University. In his past life, he has held a variety of posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry, working for International Thomson, Pergamon and Reuters at various times. He has been involved in, given talks on, consulted on, and published widely on the legal issues involved in the creation, dissemination and consumption of information - especially Intellectual Property Rights, licences, Data Protection and Freedom of Information - since the mid 1980s. He is a copyright consultant to the JISC, to a number of private and public sector bodies and to the Strategic Content Alliance. He is a member of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, and of the Universities UK team that negotiates licences on behalf of the higher and further education communities with the Copyright Licensing Agency. The course will include a reminder of the principles and practice of copyright; investigate how to legally copy, covering licences and exceptions to copyright; look at related rights such as database rights, moral rights, and performers rights; review recent developments, including the Digital Economy Act, the Hargreaves Review, and orphan works; discuss risk management; investigate scenarios for discussion and reporting back, and incorporate a quiz, and a Q & A session. Attendees are invited to submit questions for the Q&A sessions in advance, or on the day. A vegetarian lunch will be provided. Please specify at time of booking if you have any other dietary requirements. Please contact Jennifer Findlay ([email protected]) to reserve a place, or for any further information. ------------------------------ End of SCOTSLINK Digest - 16 Sep 2011 to 19 Sep 2011 (#2011-93) ***************************************************************
