Ian Lovecy wrote:
> However, while this might solve some problems, it creates
> others. Easy for the university to know what it holds the
> copyright of for its own internal use; but if I as a
> librarian (or researcher) want to copy or quote extensively
> from copyright material, do I have to trace the author's
> career to find out where the copyright resides?
I would hope and expect that Bangor, and any other University that
implements such a policy, would publicly state that all its materials
are available for copying for research, private study and educational
purposes (so long as its reasonable economic rights are bnot
impaired), and that it will make publicly available (on the Web) a
regularly updated list of the all the items it holds copyright to.
Not a perfect solution, I know, but the best I can suggest.
> > And
there is still the vexed question of "in work
time", > the only claim universities have to the copyright of the
> work of their staff. Our academic staff have no set hours;
> if our Professor of Welsh sits at his desk and writes a
> poem during the day, and does the Departmental
> Administration at home until 3 am, does the University have
> a right -- moral or legal -- to the copyright in his poem?
> If he confines his scholarly writing to the hours of 6 pm
> to midnight (as I did when I wrote a book on library
> automation), is that work morally or legally the
> University's?
A professor who works at
4 am at home, if he is doing work for the University, is creating
work in the course of his employee duties, and so the HEI prima facie
owns the copyright. Equally, the poem the professor writes during
work hours belongs to him, as he was not paid as an employee to write
poetryt (assuming he is not a Professor of Poetry or similar!). Thus
the decisive question is not where and when was the work done, but
was the work done as part of the employee duties? If the work was
done as part of his/her duties, it makes no difference where and when
it was done.
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