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The Copyright and Related Rights (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016 is announced

4 August, 201630 April, 2020
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| Copyright, CRC12 / CRC13, Digital deposit, Fair use

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Speaking at the National Council for the Blind of Ireland, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Ms Mary Mitchell-O’Connor TD, today announced the long-promised Government approval for the drafting of a General Scheme of Bill entitled the Copyright and Related Rights (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016. The Bill is in response to the Modernising Copyright Report published in October 2013, compiled by the Copyright Review Committee appointed in 2011. But the response does not cover all of the issues in the Report. Instead, the main issues covered the Heads will include:

• Facilitating access to books for persons with a disability, paving the way for ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled;

• Improving educational use, to permit teachers use modern day technology such as whiteboards without fear of infringing copyright, and to facilitate distance learning and education over the internet, in line with the changing provision of education and training in Ireland;

• Improving access to the Courts system for intellectual property claims, in particular to facilitate lower value IP infringement cases to be brought before the District and Circuit courts;

• Extending current copyright exceptions to promote non-commercial research including the introduction of a Text and Data Mining copyright exception into Irish law;

• Extending current copyright deposit provisions relating to books to facilitate the creation of a Digital Deposit on a voluntary basis;

• Creating an exception for use of copyright works to allow for caricature, satire and parody;

• Extending the concept of fair dealing in copyright works for purposes of news reporting;

• Making it an infringement, in the context of photographs, to tamper with metadata associated with the photographic works; and

• Allowing libraries, archives and educational institutions to make a copy of a work in its collection for preservation purposes and for catalogues for exhibitions, and so on.…

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Memory in a Digital Age: Collecting, Accessing and Forgetting

12 April, 201630 April, 2020
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| Conferences, Lectures, Papers and Workshops, Copyright, Digital deposit

Trinity Week 'Memory' banner, via tcd.ie

This is Trinity Week in Trinity College Dublin. The cricket pitch is beginning to look green; the cherry blossom is beginning to come into bloom; and Front Square is beginning to fill up with tourists. Trinity Week commenced yesterday on Trinity Monday, when we celebrated the announcement of the new Honorary Fellows, Fellows, and Scholars of the College. This is followed by a week of events including symposia, lectures, roundtable discussions and many other events, all of which will be of interest to the general public as well as to members of College and academics from other institutions. This year, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting the programme of events for Trinity Week. The theme for the week is “Memory”, and the week long programme will include exciting events which demonstrate the key role memory plays in the teaching and research in the Faculty. There is more information here, the brochure may be downloaded here, and the events are live-tweeted here.

On Thursday next, 14 April, from 9:00am until 1:30pm, the School of Law (as one of the Schools in the Faculty) is co-hosting a half-day seminar on

Memory in a Digital Age: Collecting, Accessing and Forgetting.

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#CRC12 Paper: Chapter 9 – heritage institutions

15 March, 201230 April, 2020
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| Copyright, CRC12 / CRC13, Digital deposit

#CRC12logosmallChapter 9 of the Copyright Review Committee‘s Consultation Paper considers whether the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (also here) (CRRA) creates barriers to innovation by heritage institutions (update: you can download a pdf of the Paper here (via DJEI) or here (from this site)). As keepers of our cultural heritage from which much innovation can flow, copyright law raises particular issues for heritage institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries, museums, schools, universities and other educational establishments.

Many of the exceptions to copyright in both CRRA and the European Union Copyright Directive relate to educational purposes in general (which are discussed in chapter 7) and to heritage institutions in particular (which we discuss in this chapter). These are important interests in Ireland, given our strong cultural heritage and traditions in art, music and literature. Indeed, one important strand of innovation is likely to be provided by the creative capacity of artists to generate innovative content. In particular, many of the submissions pointed to the important role of libraries and other heritage institutions as repositories of all forms of intellectual heritage – whether print or digital – from which such innovation can flow.…

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