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Hi there, I'm not an expert in licensing, but the approach described by Terry sounds very like the one adopted by Jourm. You can find out more about the Jorum initiative and their license at http://www.jorum.ac.uk/index.html All the best Lorna On 25 Jan 2006, at 14:39, Terry McAndrew wrote: > Hi, > > Our Imagebank is a project which I hope may be migrated towards digital > repository in the near future, so I am lurking on this list. 'Once > only' > is used in our case to some degree - I am not the Imagebank project > officer but my understanding is as follows. > > As copyright from staff in HE is often held by the employer and the > individual, we negotiate copyright clearance once with the institution > of the contributing author of the image on the first submission. This > can be extended to cover subsequent contributions from colleagues at > the > same institution, without having to re-negotiate. The original author > still holds rights to the image. > > I would have thought it possible to get a one-off agreement for > personal > contributions but multiple authors will require something else. > > See http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/imagebank/Search/donation.htm > > Terry. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Repositories discussion list > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bell > [jpb] > Sent: 25 January 2006 14:07 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Licences - once only or every time? > > An answer from a bit of a novice! > > My suspicion is that your "once only" approach might open a slightly > malodorous can of worms in the case of materials with several authors, > especially where they are from different institutions. > > Any better informed answwers!? > > Jon > > -- Lorna M. Campbell Assistant Director, CETIS University of Strathclyde +44 (0)141 548 3072 http://www.cetis.ac.uk/