British Library Archive of Sound Recordings (Case study)
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OVERVIEW
This case study, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance as part of its IPR Toolkit is one of seven forming an analysis of publicly funded e-content initiatives, which demonstrate the flow of content, value and rights across the respective seven representatives of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) sponsors. The IPR Case Studies report co-ordinated by NaomiKorn Consulting is addressed to senior decision makers across public-sector bodies and aims at providing a coherent account of best practices of managing publicly funded e-content. It is licenced for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
Background
The British Library’s Archival Sound Recordings Projects aim to digitise and make available 8,000 hours of digitised audio freely available to the Higher and Further Education (HE/FE) communities of the UK. The projects are funded by the JISC under its Digitisation Programme. The core objectives of the project are to provide audio material for teaching, learning and research within various subject areas from history to ethnomusicology to science, across the broad range of HE/ FE within a password protected domain.
Key content features
- Multiple types of recordings: (a) unpublished recordings (b) published commercial recordings (c) oral history (d) field recordings (sound scapes).
- Multiple types of works (published and unpublished): subsist such as: (a) performances (b) recorded literary works (c) sound recordings (d) musical works.
- Multiple types of rights: (a) copyrights (b) trademarks (on the brands of e.g. record companies) (c) personal data (e.g. in an oral history recording).
Value gains
- Educational and research value from making various forms of sound recordings freely available to the research community.
- Cultural value from the preservation and dissemination of culturally important content that has not been previously published.
- Increasing the visibility of the British Library archive and attracting a greater audience.
- Allowing researchers to built upon primary material that is now made easily available.
Rights ownership and obtained permissions
Rights are either owned by the British Library or effort is invested to obtain licences from the rights holders.
- The multiple layers of rights subsisting in each work often cause severe clearance problems and result in the emergence of a whole class of works without an identifiable owner (orphan works). More specifically:
- Clearance costs are high and unpredictable.
- The clearance procedure affects the management of the whole project.
- Clearance of rights is important not merely because of the legal liability risks but also in order to maintain the good reputation of the British Library.
Terms of access and use
- The content is made available to the public under two types of agreement, one for the general public and another one specifically for Higher and Further Education Institutions.
- The material that is made available to the general public is licensed under a standard BL licence allowing end users to copy the material for private, non commercial and educational or research purposes. The licence does not permit adaptations or further dissemination of the work.
- The material that is made available to HE/FE institutions is licensed through the Archival Sound Recordings Sub-licence Agreement. Such a sub-licence allows under very specific conditions the copying and the limited distribution and adaptation of the content. More specifically:
- The circulation of the licensed content is allowed but only over a secure network, such as Athens, in the UK and between specific categories of users, as described in the Sub-licence agreement. Authorised users are members of staff and students of the HE/FE institutions only.
- The sub-licence allows only educational and non commercial uses of the licensed content.
- Authorised users, as defined in the sub-licence are allowed to incorporate parts of the licensed content in their own work provided they properly attribute the right-owners and acknowledge the source.
- Public performance of the licensed content is only possible to the extent that the relevant additional licence has been provided by the relevant collecting society.
Links to IPR Toolkit Resources as PDFs
Background papers
Reports
Practical tools
3.4 Top Tips for Issuing Licences
3.5 Top Tips for Requesting Licences
3.8 Template Email Permissions Form
3.9 IPR Template Permission Letter
3.10 Rights Management Template
3.12 Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Staff
3.13 Example Consortium Agreement
3.14 Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Students/Volunteers
3.15 Model contractual clauses for requesting permission from freelancers/subcontractors
3.16 Template Terms and Conditions of Service
Template policy statements
2.1 Draft Institutional IPR Policy Statements
2.2 IPR and Licensing Blue Print for Funding Bodies and Recipients of Funding
Related Digipedia links
IPR policy statement for the public sector
Orphan works and risk management
Web 2.0 and legal issues factsheet
Further information
General resources
Intellectual Property Office: Overview of the legislative framework and policy issues/developments regarding Intellectual Property Rights
Office for Public Sector Information: Information about Crown Copyright material, click use licence for reusing Crown Copyright material and access to the consolidated copyright legislation.
British Library Business and IP Centre: Provision of resources, support and advice relating to the creation and exploitation of IP within a business context
Licensing schemes and open content licensing initiatives
Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
Resources for health professionals
Resources for schools, colleges and universities
JISC Digital Media Online Image Finding Tutorial: Interactive tool providing information about how to find images online which can be used with the least amount of restrictions
Web2Rights Project: JISC funded project providing interactive copyright and other legal issues tools, resources and charts for use by JISC funded projects
JISC Casper: Interactive tools and associated resources for dealing with copyright issues in schools and projects who are reusing content
JISC IPR and Web2.0 Animation: IPR and Web2.0 animation commissioned by JISC and built around the Web2Rights project deliverables
Becta: Information about IPR for schools
JISC IPR Consultancy: Briefing documents about IPR and monthly IPR Newsletter
JISC Open Content Licences Overview Paper: Overview paper providing guidance about the use of open content licences for JISC funded projects
JISC Model Licence Interactive: Interactive tool which provides an overview of the benefits of the JISC Model Licence
TrustDR Project: JISC funded project providing supporting documentation relating to the establishment of a digital rights management system for repositories
JISC Legal: Support for HEIs and FEIs on legal issues
OSS Watch: Support for HEIs and FEIs on open source licences
Resources for the cultural heritage sector
Collections Link: Comprehensive resources relating to IP and licensing for cultural heritage bodies
Harvested links
- Copyright Essentials
- A Collections Trust factsheet providing an introduction to copyright law for the non-specialist collections manager. [?]
- Training Course: Copyright Essentials
- This training course provided by Museums Galleries Scotland offers an introduction to the principles of copyright within the context of caring for collections. It offers basic and practical training, [?]
- New guide to copyright for cultural heritage organisations
- The Collections Trust is delighted to announce the publication of a new guide to copyright for cultural heritage organisations. [?]
- Collections Management Network website
- Collections Management Network (CMNetwork) is a consortium of consultants, advisers and trainers with expertise in collections management. We work together to provide practical, authoritative, cost ef [?] <span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1287584946184_396" />
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