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Law Librarians as Copyright Specialists: the Perfect Match?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

Kate Faulkner  and
Wendy Lynwood
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Abstract

This article, written by Kate Faulkner and Wendy Lynwood, considers the skills of law librarians and shows how they can assist those who also hold a copyright specialist role. Most librarians encounter some aspects of copyright within their role. However, the understanding that law librarians have with regard to law, legal research capabilities, teaching and liaison skills equips them to take on copyright, sometimes in addition to their law library role, or to move into a full-time copyright specialist role.

Keywords

copyrightlaw librarianslegal information professionalsacademic law librariesskills
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Current Interests
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 211 - 215
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. 239 F.3d 1004 (2001).

2 Maev Kennedy, ‘Legal row over National Portrait Gallery images placed on Wikipedia’ The Guardian (London, 14 July 2009) <www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/14/national-portrait-gallery-wikipedia-row> accessed 27 July 2022.

3 Sheeran v Chokri [2022] EWHC 827 (Ch), [2022] E.C.D.R. 15.

4 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s.11.

5 ‘LSE Intellectual Property Policy’ s.2.1 <https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/services/Policies-and-procedures/Assets/Documents/IntProPol.pdf> accessed 27 July 2022.

6 University of Cambridge's Intellectual Property Policy <www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/pdfs/2020/nov2020/ordinance13.pdf#page=25> accessed 3 August 2022.

7 <www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-open-access-policy/> accessed 3 August 2022.

8 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> accessed 3 August 2022.

9 https://www.libraries.cam.ac.uk/libraries-directory/libraries-a-z.

10 For further details regarding the Copyright Group at Cambridge see: Claire Sewell, ‘Building Copyright Confidence Through Community' (2022) 22(3) Legal Information Management 151–155. doi:10.1017/S1472669622000299.

11 Intellectual Property Office, ‘Copyright: Orphan Works’ <www.gov.uk/guidance/copyright-orphan-works> accessed 4 August 2022.

12 [2021] EWHC 697 (IPEC) The case of a self-publisher who wanted a court order to require the British Library and the Bodleian to remove the metadata for her book Twiggles and Squiggles as she believed the institutions were operating illegal licensing schemes (with Google) and affecting the profits from book sales. The claim was struck out.

13 These aspects were discussed in Copyright Literacy Webinar 51: 1 July 2022 ‘Becoming a copyright specialist’, Chris Slater, Wendy Lynwood and Neil Sprunt. Recording on YouTube: <https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/webinars-copyright-and-online-learning/> accessed 4 August 2022.