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Copyright is complex and the regulations vary around the world. If you are submitting work to the Society, whether on a blog post, Destinations article or webinar, please be mindful of the varying copyright regulations.
For example if you are based in Australia but studying a place in the Irish Republic, please check that your work complies with copyright in all three countries. Please see below: Non-UK copyright.
A brief summary of UK copyright law:
There is a useful summary in this document from the National Archives, from which the flowchart below is taken, via Open Government Licence v3.
If you didn’t write/draw/record/photograph it, then you don’t own the copyright and need permission to publish it unless the following times have elapsed:
Explicit permission is needed from the copyright holder, unfortunately it isn’t sufficient just to acknowledge their authorship. If in doubt, don’t!
Exceptions are made for private study/non-commercial research, data mining and teaching. This is subject to sufficient acknowledgement and fair dealing. Fair dealing isn’t strictly defined but such use should only involve part of a work (1 chapter or 5% is often quoted but not defined as such) and not interfere with the author’s rights to earn money from their work! These exceptions are for private work only and not permission to publish the copy directly.
If copyright ownership is unknown it may be possible for the work to be registered as an orphan work. There should be evidence of a diligent search for the copyright holder and a fee is payable.
Non-UK copyright:
The Berne Convention sets minimum standards for copyright, however most countries have more stringent regulations. Unfortunately these vary with both the country and nature of the work. Please check.
References:
https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/copyright-related-rights.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term for info about duration of copyright in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright for info about exceptions to copyright in the UK including fair dealing.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/copyright-orphan-works for details on orphan works.
https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/283693 for the Berne Convention.
With grateful thanks to Gay Evans for helpful comments.
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