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Dear NEW-MEDIA-CURATING list A colleague who is contributing to an important consultation over changes to copyright law has put out the following urgent request. The recommendations she refers to are from the recent Gowers Review into intellectual property rights. See http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/gowers_review_intellectual_property/gowersreview_index.cfm She says - <quote> "The Patent Office has mentioned that the following two Recommendations below, have only received negative feedback so far from rights holders and so they are keen to be updated about favourable responses to these. Recommendation 11: Propose that Directive 2001/29/EC be amended to allow for an exception for creative, transformative or derivative works, within the parameters of the Berne Three Step Test. Recommendation 12: Create an exception to copyright for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche by 2008. In order to try and ensure that these Recommendations are implemented in their current form by means of a submission to the Patent Office, I was wondering if any of you might be aware of any general instances of situations where: - The lack of such Exceptions have prevented certain works from being created by students/lecturers and/or - Where such activities take place anyway within the context of teaching/learning and research activities (with or without rights clearance procedures being followed)?" </quote> Note that although she needs to give them real examples, these could be anonymised. Please send any relevant examples to me and I will consolidate and forward to her (or ask me for her direct contact details if you want more information) With best wishes, Grant ------------------------------------------------- Grant Young TASI Technical Research Officer (half time) Digitisation Project Manager (half time) [log in to unmask] | 0117 928 7109 http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmgay TASI - Technical Advisory Service for Images Free help, advice and guidance for the Further and Higher Education sector - http://www.tasi.ac.uk/- A JISC Service CURL 19th Century Pamphlets Online Digitisation Project http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects/NineteenOnline.htm -------------------------------------------------