[LINK] FW: ICT Predictions 2009 - little OT (gov't reports example)

[Paul Koerbin]

> As far as I can see the Commonwealth Government is not going to object
> to
you keeping a copy of a government report. They just don't want you to change it, or sell copies.

When we collect commonwealth govt publications for PANDORA we neither change nor sell them but we still have to seek copyright licence to include them in the archive and provide access to them. We have an arrangement with the Commonwealth Copyright Administration whereby we advise them of the publications we want to include in PANDORA and the CCA seeks the permission on behalf of the NLA. In many cases they are able to obtain 'blanket' permissions for specific domains ( a list as at July 2008 is online http://pandora.nla.gov.au/manual/word/Attachment_A.doc) which helps. On other occasions they we are only able to get permission for the specified 'title' (see this list http://pandora.nla.gov.au/manual/word/Attachment_B.doc) On some rare occasions permission is refused.

Paul

Paul Koerbin

Manager Web Archiving | National Library of Australia | Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: 02 6262 1411 | Email: pkoerbin at nla.gov.au | skype: paulkoerbin