Copyright: a practical guide

Description

This highly-practical guide is an essential reference handbook for museum, archive and library professionals looking to fulfill the legal and ethical responsibilities of managing copyright in a collection. It will help:

• Improve documentation of collections, integrating simple legal controls into collections management procedures.
• Identify which items in collections are subject to copyright.
• Identify problematic objects and pursue copyright permissions for them.
• Protect works produced by institutions, including digital content.

The step-by-step guidance includes:

• Detailed information on all aspects of intellectual property rights.
• Template forms.
• Simple procedural flow diagrams.
• Hot tips.
• Legal alerts.
• A clear glossary of relevant terms.

Naomi Korn, an expert provider of specialist copyright and rights management solutions and services, runs the consulting firm Naomi Korn Associates. Gordon McKenna is Standards Manager at Collections Trust.

This second edition was updated in 2015.