Before deciding how to label and publish works in your collection (whether with a Rights Statements or a Creative Commons tool), you need to conduct some rights research over your collection. What is in the public domain? What is in-copyright? What are the unknowns, and how much risk can we take? In this webinar, the panel will talk about the different strategies that GLAMs follow to conduct rights research, and existing tools that can support this.

Join us on Thursday, June 25th, 4 PM UTC, at https://zoom.us/j/94121212520 to talk with Annabelle Shaw, Victoria Stobo and Melissa Levine, who will be sharing their experiences on dealing with copyright clearance and rights research.

About the speakers

Annabelle Shaw is the Copyright and Rights Systems Manager at the British Film Institute (BFI) and leads on the rights work for archive digitisation and access projects.

Victoria Stobo is a Lecturer in Record-Keeping in the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies. She has worked in a variety of archives, museums, libraries and galleries since 2008. Her PhD examines the ways in which copyright law affects the digitisation of archive collections in the UK.

Melissa Levine is the Director of the Copyright Office at the University of Michigan. Melissa was responsible for the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), an initiative to learn more about the copyright status of books in HathiTrust. She is also a member the DPLA's working group to promote Rights Statements.

This event is organized by Open GLAM, the Special Interest Group on Intellectual Property at the Museum Computer Network, and the Copyright Community at Europeana.

This event doesn't have a limited capacity. We are using Zoom. Join the event here: https://zoom.us/j/94121212520