We get the author to sign a form saying that there aren't any 3rd party copyright issues and supply them with a list of possible issues (eg photos not taken by author). I am disappointed by the general lack of copyright awareness displayed by some PhD students who either don't have a clue what 3rd party copyright is or think that because it's referenced it's OK.
Consequently, I go through each PhD checking for problems and contact the author if anything suspicious appears.
Lisa
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From: UK discussion list for electronic theses and dissertations [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Awre
Sent: 23 March 2012 17:19
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Subject: FW: Checking 3rd party copyright
When sending theses off for digitisation at the BL (or indeed any source of digitisation), how do you check the 3rd party copyright of the thesis to ensure it is OK to be digitised? Author permission is clearly a backstop where it can be gained, but do library staff do their own checking as well or instead? If so, do you have a list of issues to guide such a check? We are keen to more formalise our own process on this and would welcome learning from experience with it. Thanks.
Regards,
Chris
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