Further copyright information

• Intellectual Property Office, including section on Copyright: comprehensive UK government site
• http://www.legislation.gov.uk/
• "Copyright and the Internet: Myth and Reality" article by Paul Pedley (2003)
• British Library information:
  Copyright and British Library services
  Copyright in the department of Manuscripts
  Permissions information
• Copyright and related rights [guidelines from the National archives] (PDF) - useful general summary including table of duration (p10-11)
• LACA (Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance)
• CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency) information
• Printing and downloading from electronic resources: Copying electronically fairly or unfairly? - notes for guidance based on the longer Guidelines for Fair Dealing: 1998, Report of the Joint Information Systems Committee & Publishers Association Working Party On Fair Dealing in an Electronic Environment
• Email: Copyright of email messages - summary from JISCmail
• Oral History: Copyright and Oral History from the [UK] Oral History Society
• IPR HelpDesk - European-funded service offering information on IPR

• University policy on Intellectual Property Rights
• FAQs on scholarly communication, arising from discussion of the above paper
• Commercialisation Services: manages the University's IPR
  
• Research policy pages from Research Support
• Licences (CLA, NLA, etc) held by the University

• Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
• Copyright, etc and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Act 2002
• Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002
• Information on the Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act from RNIB (12 October 2004)
• UK Copyright information from the Patent Office Copyright Directorate
• Statute of Anne, 1710 - the earliest UK copyright law: facsimile and transcribed text

• SI 1989 no 1212: The Copyright (Librarians and Archivists) (Copying of Copyright Material) Regulations 1989 (regulates copying under sections 38/9 and 41/2/3 of CDPA 1988) (revoking SI 1989 no 1009 as amended by no 1069)
• SI 1992 no 3233: The Copyright (Computer Programs) Regulations 1992 (includes amendments to allow backup copies of software to be made)
• SI 1995 no 3297: The Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995 (increases period of copyright from 50 to 70 years after author's death)
• SI 1996 no 2967: The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996 (various provisions)
• SI 1997 no 3032: The Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 ...later amended by...
• SI 2003 no 2501: The Copyright and Rights in Databases (Amendment) Regulations 2003
• SI 1999 no 1751: The Copyright (Application to Other Countries) Order 1999 ...later amended by...
• SI 2003 no 774: The Copyright (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) Order 2003 "take[s] account of recent accessions to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement), the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations."
• SI 2003 no.2498: The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (the adoption of the EU Directive)

• ALCS - Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society - UK rights-owners, member (with PLS) of the CLA
• ALPSP - Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - Copyright page
• BPI - British Recorded Music Industry - represents UK record companies (also IFPI - International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)
• British Copyright Council - consultative and advisory body of UK rightsholders
• Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
  Photocopying and Scanning: See CLA Photocopying and Scanning Licence information page
• Copywatch - whistleblowing scheme for infringing copying
• DACS - Design and Artists Copyright Society
• ERA - Educational Recording Agency
• Music Publishers' Association
• Newspaper Licensing Agency
• Open University off-air recording licence
• Performing Right Society - includes Mechanical Copyright Protection Society
• PLS - Publishers' Licensing Society - UK Rights-owners, member (with ALCS) of the CLA

• Copyleft - antithesis to copyright, for software
• Creative Commons
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - "Defending your rights in the digital world"
• Open Source Definition (terms of use for Open Source software, Open Source Initiative, refined from the Debian Social Contract)

• University of Leeds HMSO "Click use licence" and further information
• Crown and Parliamentary Copyright
• Licences for reusing public sector information

• JISC Legal Information Service
• Guidelines for Fair Dealing in an electronic environment: 1998, Report of the Joint Information Systems Committee & Publishers Association Working Party On Fair Dealing in an Electronic Environment
• Model NESLi2 Licence for Journals
• UK HEI copyright pages - from the Loughborough University "Clearing the way" research project

• Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002
• Copyright and Dyslexia (Support the Right to Read Campaign)

World:

• Berne Convention (available in DOC or PDF formats), and list of countries party to it
• SI 1999 (1751): The Copyright (Application to Other Countries) Order 1999 - lists other countries which are signatories to the Berne convention / Universal Copyright Convention / ... "or otherwise give adequate protection under their law"
• WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization

Europe:

• OHIM - Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market - EU Designs and Trademarks

USA:

• Section 107: "Fair use"
• Section 108: Reproduction by libraries and archives
• Copyright and fair use - from Stanford University Libraries
• Copyright Renewal Database - from Stanford University Libraries - refers to material published between 1923 and 1963 in the USA
• US Copyright Office
• Copyright Clearance Center
• MIT's OpenCourseWare - Massachusetts Institute of Technology making teaching materials freely available online
• "When U.S. works pass into the public domain" (table by Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina)
• Library of Congress copyright office note on works passing into the public domain (13 January 2003)

Canada:

• Balanced Copyright (Copyright Reform Process website)

Australia:

• Australian Copyright Council (includes access to information sheets on various aspects of copyright)
• Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL)

DP at University of Leeds:

• University of Leeds code of practice on data protection
• Data Protection Register - search by name or postcode for University of Leeds - outlining the data held and purposes

UK Data Protection and related law:

• UK Information Commissioner's Office
• Data Protection Register
• Data Protection Act 1998 full text
• Ministry of Justice data protection information
• The Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999

UK Higher Education and DP:

• JISC Code of Practice for the Further and Higher Education Sectors, May 2008
• Data-protection@jiscmail - mailing list, not all HE, with online archives

UK libraries and archives and DP:

• The National Archives code of practice

Miscellaneous DP items:

• Roger Clarke's Dataveillance and Information Privacy Pages - large collection of links from an academic at the Australian National University
• EPIC: the Electronic Privacy Information Center (US based)