This is where the database from our WATCH project (Writers And Their
Copyright Holders) comes into its own, but we would obviously need to
extend the scope and scale significantly to meet the needs of your
scenario...
Sheila Corrall
University Librarian
Whiteknights
PO Box 223
Reading
RG6 6AE
Tel 01734 318772
Fax 01734 316636
Email [log in to unmask]
>Out of interest, Bangor is just considering a new IPR
>agreement with staff by which it does largely retain
>copyright -- although there is concern that a refusal to
>allow staff to give copyright to journal publishers might
>result in their being able to get nothing published! The
>University is waiving the rights to something like the
>first 2,000 pounds of royalties.
>
>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?
>
>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?
>
>Think before you say yes: I would have to have to ask all
>my staf to change their car insurance because any journey
>at any time might be considered to be "in the course of
>their employment"!
>
>Ian
>
>On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:57:09 GMT "Prof. Charles Oppenheim"
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> Chris Pegler's point about "the material should be owned by the
>> University anyway" is interesting. I have argued for some years that
>> at the very least HEIs should look into this issue, precisely because
>> it gives them an opportunity to reduce their costs. I gave a
>> presentation to CVCP urging them to consider this matter more than a
>> year ago. The result? Zilch.
>
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>Ian Lovecy
>Cyfarwyddwr / Director
>Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth / Information Services
>Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor / University of Wales, Bangor
>Ffordd Sackville
>Bangor
>Gwynedd LL57 1LD
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