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A licence to scan: the visual resource professional in UK higher education and the digital image copyright dilemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Matt Davies
Matt Davies*
Affiliation:
Digital Humanities Centre, Humanities Building, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Visual resource professionals (VRPs) for years provided high-quality, subject specific, copyright cleared images for teaching and research in higher education in the UK by maintaining slide collections. As the rapid march of technology left the 35mm slide in its wake, VRPs found themselves unable to provide the digital alternative because their hands were bound by outdated copyright law. They began sounding the alarm over ten years ago and have been calling for a resolution ever since, but to no avail. Why have their calls not been heeded? How have VRPs responded to the resulting dilemma, and where does it leave the copyright status of the images used in everyday teaching in the UK?

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 2012 , pp. 15 - 19
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2012

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