Resources

Further intellectual property rights resources

Intellectual property rights can be a contentious and overly legal topic. For most researchers, tricky copyright issues rarely arise.

If you wish to read more on rights we have collated a number of useful resources.

Legislation

• Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48)
• The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003
• The Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997
• Reuse of Public Sector Information Directive 2003/98/EC (PDF)
• Freedom of Information Act 2000
• The Environmental Information Regulations 2004

Guidelines

• UK Copyright Law Factsheet P-01 (PDF), produced by UK Copyright Service.
• Data Sharing for Statistical Purposes; A Practitioners’ Guide to the Legal Framework, produced by The Office for National Statistics.
• JISC/TLTP Copyright Guidelines (PDF), produced by Jisc.
• IPR and Licensing issues in Derived Data (PDF), by Naomi Korn, Charles Oppenheim and Charles Duncan.
• Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Preservation (PDF), by Andrew Charlesworth.

Websites

• UK Intellectual Property Office
• The Copyright Licensing Agency
• LACA UK Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance
• Creative Commons

Books

• Padfield, T. (2019) Copyright for Records Managers and Archivists, London: Facet Publishing, 6th edition.
• Pedley, P. (2019) Essential Law for Information Professionals, London: Facet Publishing, 4th edition.