Copyright clearance and digitisation in UK Higher Education:
Supporting Study for the JISC/PA Clearance Mechanisms Working Party
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This study was undertaken to consider the issues relating to the clearance
of rights by HEIs for the digitisation of materials originally published
in print. The study was proposed by the members of the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) and the Publishers Association Working Party on
Clearance Mechanisms, chaired by Dominic Knight of Macmillan Publishers
and was commissioned by JISC in February 1997.
The first part of the study focuses on issues drawn from discussions with
representatives of a number of experimental projects at UK HEIs (primarily
but not exclusively under the eLib Programme) and publishers. The study
draws attention to the two different modes of what is broadly called
"digitisation". Careful distinction needs to be drawn between
"electrocopying" and "digitisation", because of the fundamental
differences in terms of utility, cost of production and (from the point of
view of the rights owners) risk. Despite this, few of the libraries'
projects specified to publishers the format in which they were proposing
to store digital copies.
JK
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