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| Digitising Dissertations |
| Author: | Atalanta |
| Date: | Wednesday, 24th Jan 2007 11:40 |
| Views: | 2,248 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Information Issues | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b96962 |
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This College wishes to digitise all old dissertations and theses, getting rid of the originals and replacing yards of shelves of crumbling paper with a few discs. We hope.
For the future, we shall get students to sign an agreement either to pass all copyright in their college work to the college, or to share the copyright equally. In future, work will be submitted electronically. It is the past stuff we are worried about.
3 problems here:
1) in the absence of any agreement whatsoever in the past, can we just go ahead and copy these old theses ? Most of the students could not be contacted. We are not going to publish the material.
2) do other colleges insist on retaining entire or shared rights to the copyright in students' work ?
3) Can anyone with experience of digitising old theses recommend any efficient/cheap/reliable commercial services for doing this ?
Regards Atalanta |
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 | Digitising Dissertations | | This College wishes to digitise all old dissertations and theses, getting rid of the originals and replacing yards of shelves ... |
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Atalanta |
24/01/07 11:40 |
96962 |
 | Re: Digitising Dissertations | | As usual when it comes to questions of copyright, there are many things to be taken into consideration. (Disclaimer – ... |
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Malcolm Kendall |
02/02/07 16:16 |
100491 |
| | Re: Digitising Dissertations | | It seems the copyright legislation does not permit copying for purposes of preservation if done to a different medium. ... |
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Atalanta |
07/02/07 17:32 |
102774 |
| | Re: Digitising Dissertations | | Further to my original post, I’ve consulted a colleague who has a more detailed knowledge of the legislation minutiae than ... |
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Malcolm Kendall |
08/02/07 13:44 |
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Atalanta |
08/02/07 18:44 |
103330 |
| | Re: Digitising Dissertations | | Unfortunately, many of the students who wrote the oldest dissertations are probably dead. I am aware that copyright in unpublished ... |
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Atalanta |
02/02/07 20:29 |
100601 |
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Sarah Brooks |
02/02/07 12:08 |
100365 |
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