I've recently attended the excellent CILIP course on licencing issues and this has effectively opened my eyes to the content of some of the licences that I have been happily signing in the past.
I have a Gale Group Licence Agreement on my desk and two elements have caught my eye. The Agreement is governed by US Copyright law and CONTU Guidelines. Secondly, the agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Michigan.
The advice from the CHLIP course (and I paraphrase) was to check that contracts covering a resource delivered in England, are governed by English Law and by English Copyright.
How have other people dealt with this sort of issue? I am going to check this with the University's legal department but I would be interested to know whether anyone else has picked up on this.
Chris Fowler
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Christine Fowler
Library IT Strategy Coordinator
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Faculty Liaison Librarian for
Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
University of Southampton Library
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