1. Repository Legal & Policy Issues Warwick, 28 March 2006 Naomi Korn JISCs IPR Consultant

2. Overview Who are we? What are we doing? Optimising todays meeting Terms of reference Understanding lifecycle of object Posing key questions

3. Overview of IPR Consultancy Team members Consultancy started October 2005 Duration and extent Aims & objectives

4. Optimising todays meeting Much work been done already Taking into accounts levels of awareness Build upon recent research Look holistically across repositories Try and gather themes and issues Look at how our work fits into this

5. Terms of reference Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories (CD-LOR) www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR Casey, J., Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) In Networked E-Learning - a beginners guide for content developers, (2004) JISC Legal service. http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/publications/johncasey_1.htm http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/publications/johncasey_1.htm Casey, J., Getting Practical with IPR in E-Learning, (2006) JORUM www.jorum.ac.ukwww.jorum.ac.uk Korn, N., Guide to Intellectual Property Rights and Other Legal Issue, (2005) MINERVA http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/guideipr.htm http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/guideipr.htm RoMEO Project http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/

6. The Object The People The Place The Language The Ethos Peeling back the layers

7. Getting Practical with IPR in e-learning. John Casey 2006 Granular level - object itself

8. Creation/Acquisition Management Access Use Maintenance Retrieval and reuse Deletion and long-term archiving Object lifecycle + key milestones

9. Copyright, databases right Moral rights Privacy rights Data protection Freedom of information Obscenity, libel & defamation Contractual obligations Legal/rights issues within objects

10. Who are the main actors? What is their function? What is their relationship to the organisation? What is their relationship to the content? What is their relationship to information about the content (metadata)? How do they want to interact with the content? Human level

11. Nature of repository? Purpose of repository (active/passive) Type of material deposited? Rights associated with material? Under what terms is access granted? Repository level

12. What form of agreement (alphabet) is used? How to communicate rights? –To people –To machines –To lawyers Are there are languages we can reuse? What about standards? The language of rights

13. How to encourage law-abiding citizens? How to encourage cultural change? How to build up trust? How to educate depositors and users? How to reduce risks? How to sustain projects? Holistic issues

14. Development of model licences Rights Expression Language IPR in JISC funded projects Working with JISC Legal Examining rights issues in collaborative works Sustainability Working with this group Overlap with our work

15. Enforcing contracts is not always possible, so the use, access and contribution of material to repositories will often require varying levels of trust and other methods Discuss the validity of this statement, who it would apply to and how it might be achieved? Rights enforcement