 |
 |
CREATe have organised two free events which are now available for booking. The first is a copyright education event in Glasgow and the second is a screening event on creativity, film archives, and education with a focus on creative reuse, in London. More details and booking information below: Workshop: Copyright Education and Educating Users / Legal and business model constraints on the transformative value of heritage collections Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre, 1445 Argyle St, Glasgow Date: 10 November 2017 Time: 1400-1600 Keynote: Lorna Hughes Speakers & Panelists: Martin Kretschmer (Chair), Lorna Hughes, Bartolomeo Meletti, Fred Saunderson (NLS), Gregor White (tbc), David Scott (Glasgow Museums) tbc How can the collections of libraries, archives, and museums be unlocked to create value across the creative industries, and inspire new innovations in digital research and development? How can the primary sources of our heritage be made accessible and usable and re-usable for creativity and enjoyment by the broadest demographics? One way of dealing with these issues is through education: lawful creative re-use can be encouraged by informing librarians, archivists and museums curators of the creative opportunities within copyright law, while giving them the tools to educate their users about these opportunities. Indeed, every copyright regime limits an owner's rights by allowing certain uses of her work without the need for her permission. These permitted acts - or, exceptions to copyright - represent an attempt to strike a balance between the economic interests of the owner and use by others considered to be socially, culturally, politically or economically beneficial. In this workshop we consider some of the problematic issues that underpin many of these general exceptions to copyright. For example: What constitutes 'non-commercial' use? How does the new exception for quotation differ from the long-standing exception for criticism and review? When has a work been 'made available' to the public? When is it reasonable to assume that an author has died more than 70 years ago or more? Which exceptions will always be available to users, regardless of the terms and conditions of any contract? In addition, the workshop provides an opportunity to become familiar with two innovative digital resources - Copyright User and the Copyright Cortex - that can help cultural heritage practitioners better understand copyright, as well as helping you to help others understand how and when copyright enables creative use without the need for clearing rights. For booking details, event information and speakers bios: see here<http://www.create.ac.uk/transformative-value-of-collections-nov17> CREATe / BFI Education Screening Event on Copyright & Creative Reuse Venue: London, BFI Southbank Date: 8 December 2017 Time: 1100-1830 Speakers: Claudy Op den Kamp, Céline Ruivo, Annabelle Shaw, Sue Howard, Jenny Hammerton, Leontien Bout, Ronan Deazley, Mark Robinson, Ben Green, Shane O'Sullivan, Lionel Bently The event will explore the role of copyright in relation to creativity, film archives, and education, with focus on creative reuse. The common theme to tie these topics together will be the creative reuse of the character of Sherlock Holmes. As outlined below, the evolving journey of the notorious detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories illustrated by Sidney Paget to its most recent adaptations - passing through William Gillette, Basil Rathbone and others - provides a compelling story to explore the role of copyright in relation to creativity, archives, and education. William Gillette's 1916 film adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is considered a key to understanding the cinematic representation of Sherlock Holmes. Long presumed lost since its first release, the film was discovered in October 2014 at the Cinémathèque Française film archive in Paris, and restored. In 1899, William Gillette - seeking Conan Doyle's collaboration and endorsement of his play Sherlock Holmes, A Drama in Four Acts - famously asked the writer 'May I marry Sherlock Holmes?'; and Conan Doyle replied: 'You can marry him, or murder him or do what you like with him'. The character of Sherlock Holmes also features in Copyright User education resources focussing on creative reuse: The Game is On! and Copyright Bites. The event will bring together copyright law experts, film archivists and custodians, filmmakers and other creators. The event will provide the platform for a constructive dialogue between the people who preserve and provide access to existing films, and those who wish to reuse films in the creation of new work. For booking details, event information and speakers bios: see here<http://www.create.ac.uk/copyright-creative-reuse-screening-dec17> Kerry Patterson CREATe Community Manager Direct line: +44 (0)141 330 1980 My days of work are Monday - Wednesday Room 407, CREATe, School of Law, 10 The Square, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 [University of Glasgow: The Times Scottish University of the Year 2018] Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra