Introduction

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

• How does copyright law affect the use of multidimensional dataset?

Objectives

• To understand copyright law in the UK.
• To be aware of the impact of the copyright legislation on personal practice for collecting multidimensional data.
• Demonstrate that this understanding can be applied on a dataset.

This lesson presents information that has been gathered from a mixture of web resources, references and links:

• British library: https://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre/articles/what-is-copyright
• Jisc guides: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/full-guide/copyright-law
• Jisc digitisation:https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/3d-digitisation-and-intellectual-property-rights
• Gov.uk:
  • General copyright information https://www.gov.uk/copyright
  • Copyright specific to images: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-digital-images-photographs-and-the-internet/copyright-notice-digital-images-photographs-and-the-internet
• Creative Commons (CC):
  • Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
  • License chooser: https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/
• Creative Commons Corporation (2011), The Power of Open, https://thepowerofopen.org/assets/pdfs/tpoo_eng.pdf
• Pila, Justine, Copyright and its Categories of Original Works (July 1, 2008). Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 229–254, 2010, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22/2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1160176 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1160176
• Wallace, Andrea. A Culture of Copyright: A scoping study on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the UK. Research Report. Towards A National Collection, UKRI, (2022), https://openresearch.community/documents/a-culture-of-copyright-a-wallace