Hi Richard,
No longer an expert on this (mercifully) but you can check the copyright
statement on the document concerned eg Crown Copyright - see link and
summary below , you can ask NLH Team for advice or try CILIP - but they are
not able to provide the same level of detail as they used to. You'll also
draw on heaps of experience from librarians within the NHS.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/DH_4067693
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Good luck
Veronica Fraser
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Please respond to "Parker
Richard (RBK) Walsall
Hospitals NHS Trust"
I wonder if anyone can help clear this up for me.
I was at a meeting at my Trust and someone wanted to photocopy an entire
several hundred page manual, multiple times and give copies to everyone on
the committee. I said this was breach of copy-right and it would be more
sensible to buy a few copies. They responded copy-right didn't apply at all
for anything published by the government, if you were part of the
government, e.g. at an NHS trust anything produced by another government
department we could copy it as many times as we liked and that did bot
break any CLA rules or copyright law.
My question is, is this true?
If it is or isn't true, where can I find information to confirm this either
way?
Thanks for any help in this.
Yours
Richard Parker
Head of Knowledge and Library Services
Walsall Hospitals
01922 656573
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