Essential Copyright for Information Professionals

What You Need to Know - and Preparing for Change!

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday, 17th March 2009, 9.30-16.15
Presenter: Laurence Bebbington
Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeIG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

Course Outline

Copyright remains one of the most challenging legal issues for information professionals in all areas of the information industries. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexity of the subject. It will cover all essential aspects of copyright and associated rights. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of copyright. Woven into the sessions will be the latest information on forthcoming changes to UK law on copyright and how you need to understand and prepare for them now. Understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples of copyright issues. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of contexts.

The sessions will include:

• Copyright - what is it, how does it arise and how long does it last?
• Ownership of copyright
• Categories of copyright works
• The rights of the copyright owner
• Permitted acts and exceptions to copyright
• Database right
• Moral rights
• Licensing schemes for education, commercial and business
• organisations
• Overview of copyright in the digital environment
• The Gowers Review - Planning for Change: a special, dedicated session on how the likely reforms to UK law currently under implementation from the Gowers Review will affect you, and how will you benefit. What do you need to be doing now?

The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit www.ukeig.org.uk or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk