1. Copyright + Social Media +
Archival Collections
Tues 29 April, 2014, 5:30pm,
The Astor
2. Bottom line
• Breach of copyright is serious.
• Even if you don’t ‘believe’ in copyright, it is a civil offence.
• There are criminal provisions for commercial-scale
infringement.
SLSA B21925/9
3. Creative Commons
• SLSA has identified over 100,000 images in its online
catalogue as being out of copyright
• Added the Creative Commons’ Public Domain mark
• Working on applying the CC-BY license to in-copyright images
and other online collections
• Creative Commons search page is a great place to start when
looking for material you can reuse
search.creativecommons.org
With so much material to choose from that is out of copyright (in the public domain) or available for re-use under a Creative Commons licence, don’t take the risk of breaching copyright.
CC-BY – ONLY in cases where the copyright holders have transferred their copyright to the Library or advised us they do not wish to exercise their copyrights.
This photograph is in copyright and I shouldn’t be using it
Jump to photo page to explain the extra information
Creative commons public domain, use it for anything. Do with it what you want!
Excuse the bad joke…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulteney_Street,_Adelaide
If you wanted to use an image, or other material that was still in copyright, you’d need to contact the copyright owner
Current copyright legislation says that copyright for literary, dramatic and musical works last for 70 years from the death of the creator, 70 years from the publication of sound recordings and films.
In addition to this you have moral rights
Copyrights can be handed on to subsequent holders
MORAL RIGHTS
Moral rights give certain creators and performers the right:
to have their authorship or performership attributed to them;
not to have their work falsely attributed to someone else; and
not to have their work treated in a derogatory way
REQUESTS FOR PERMISSION
Contact the copyright holder
South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau
SRG 76/1/61/6
SRG 76/1/243/3
Libraries like SLSA hold masses of in-copyright material, bought or donated for public use, for which copyright holders can no longer be identified because of the passage of time.
Archival material is particularly difficult. It remains in-copyright unless it is published (with the copyright holder’s permission). Copyright in the material passes from one generation to the next through the disposition of estates. It may or may not pass to every member of subsequent generations, depending on the nature of a will.
SLSA, other NSLA libraries and other cultural institutions are beginning to take a risk management approach to releasing some categories of in-copyright material online where there is no applicable exception in the Copyright Act.
The Centenary of ANZAC is a case in point. SLSA is preparing to release thousands of letters written by members of the public during the First World War to the Australian Red Cross and subsequently donated to SLSA by the Red Cross. The vast majority are still in copyright, having never been published, and the task of tracking copyright holders through at least four generations over 100 years is simply unaffordable.
On the other hand, it is almost certain that descendants of the letter writers will be thrilled to discover that we have put the material online, and we will welcome discussion with anyone who has concerns.
