About the presenter
This session is hosted by Christopher Keneally, the Director of Business Development at the Copyright Clearance Center. The CCC is a world expert in copyright licensing solutions.
My audio of the session (WMA) (posted with permission of the presenter)
The session opened with a video which you can find here. The CCC is hosting it directly; it’s not on Youtube. The video was a good basic explanation of copyright, but it misses a couple of nuances. For example, work created by the US gov’t has no copyright, but if that same work is created by a contractor then it does have a copyright. There were other small exceptions like that, but they weren’t a big deal.
Mr. Keneally then covered some common misconceptions.
Misconceptions & Truth
- having a copyright policy is sufficient
- education of users and effective licensing can reduce risk
Misconceptions & Truth
- librarian or info professional can handle all copyright questions
- most users don’t know that they need to ask, or even who to ask
Misconceptions & Truth
- everything we do is online, so we have reduced copyright risk
- technology doesn’t reduce risk
Misconceptions & Truth
- publicly available material doesn’t require permission
- publicly available material may still be protected by copyright
Misconceptions & Truth
- my company will never get into trouble with copyright
- companies of all sizes get into trouble every week
He tried to show a second video, but the network wouldn’t cooperate:
The rest of the presentation was a pretty good basic introduction to copyright as well a brief summary of the History of the Google books settlement. TBH, this presentation could have just as well been presented in a webcast. Listen to the audio I posted, watch the 2 videos, and you’ll get about 95% of the value in the presentation.
