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Copyright issues

IPR For Educational Environments - IPR Education

The free online Intellectual Property Rights for Educational Environments course is a HEFCE funded, and Higher Education Academy (HEA)/JISC managed, project created to introduce and build awar

The appropriation artist

The use and reuse of rich media is familiar territory for artists and a fundamental part of arts practice, below are some recent examples of artist appearing in high profile court cases defending t

Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)

Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Free Image sharing site, a place to find images.http://www.vads.ac.uk/index.html

Xpert Attribution tool

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This is a brilliant creative commons media search, the returned results are all embed with the Creative commons attribution information in the found content so reducing the amount of time taken to

Building digital capacity for the arts: Rights and IP

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Video for arts organisations and artists from across England who want to learn from and share experiences about the use, exploitation and development of rights models around new and archive materia

Case study: open educational practice & Intellectual property

Feedback from focus groups and from general discussions shows a great deal of confusion and lack of general clarity and understanding as the main IPR problems for staff.

Art and Appropriation - when does artistic freedom become copyright infringement?

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Artist David Mabb reflects on past projects and works, including his appropriation of patterns and designs by William Morris and a run-in with Mangum Photos.

Draft programme of events and activities for Professional Online Identities project at CSM

A cross UAL collaboration project between,

Own-it - intellectual property (IP) advice

Own-it offers intellectual property (IP) advice http://www.own-it.org/ , information and learning resources for the creative sector.

Bruce Bell – Innovation in Building Design and Construction

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Bruce Bell, a former fine art student and now the founder and director of FACIT Homes, explains how he applied the process of designing and manufacturing a product to building houses while Gil