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Copyright Essentials

Dates:

A one-day course

07 February 2012
19 April 2012
28 September 2012

Price:

£385+VAT

A number of discounts are available

Please read our Terms & Conditions

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre,

Book House, Wandsworth, London
(see a map and a list of local hotels)

Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

"The course was very informative and enjoyable."
Scope Medical delegate

"Yes I enjoyed the course - very helpful. It's hard to find a central knowledge of copyright rules without getting lost in 'lawyer speech'. This course really helped cut through this and clarify key aspects.""
7 City Learning delegate

Copyright does not just apply to publishers. If you publish documents written by someone else, use images created elsewhere, or allow other organisations to use your content in their publications, you need to know how copyright works.

Taking a common sense, non-legalistic approach, this course is ideal for people who work on the creation of all kinds of publications. It gives a broad introduction to the law, describes accepted industry practices, outlines the basics of publishing agreements, and provides tips and guidance on the kind of real-life situations you may encounter.

After this course, you will have gained:

a grounding in the principles of copyright law
an understanding of the basic publishing agreements and contracts
the ability to apply this knowledge in real-life situations
the foresight to recognise when it is time to seek expert advice.

Programme

What is copyright?
- Definitions and relevant legislation
Can I use this anyway?
- Fair dealing
- Public domain
Other rights of the author
- Economic
- Moral
- Paternity
Who is liable?
- Libel, obscenity and blasphemy
Copyright of digital material
Copyright agreements
- Contracts and agreements
- Multiple contributors and work-for-hire
- Non-text (photographs, artwork, etc).

Who will benefit from this course?

Anyone who works with text written by others, uses photographs or artworks created elsewhere, or creates content for others to use in print or digital publications.

Note: If you are involved in publishing books or journals, you may instead wish to consider attending Copyright and Legal Issues for Publishers or Publishing Contracts.

Your Tutor

Richard Balkwill has more than 25 years' experience in educational and children's reference publishing, latterly as Publishing Director at Heinemann. He is now an independent consultant and runs CopyTrain, a writing, training and copyright service for publishers. He is also the author of The Multilingual Dictionary of Copyright, Rights and Contracts. Richard Balkwill has more than 25 years' experience in educational and children's reference publishing, latterly as Publishing Director at Heinemann. He is now an independent consultant and runs CopyTrain, a writing, training and copyright service for publishers. He is also the author of The Multilingual Dictionary of Copyright, Rights and Contracts.

This course was previously called Copyright for Non-Publishers.

Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.

Dates: 07 February 2012, 19 April 2012, 28 September 2012
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £385+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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