1. Copyright Compliance and Institutional Repositories: The Do’s, Don’t’s and Challenges
Ananda T. Byrappa
Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre
GE India Technology Centre
Bangalore, INDIA
Invited Presentation Prepared for "NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPEN ACCESS AND BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES"21-23 Jan 2009 at National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore.

2. Presentation Plan Copyright: Worries and perceptions
Copyright: What is it?
Possible copyright violations/Challenges in IR
What makes your organisation IR compliant ?
Project RoMEO and the Solutions
Trends and Challenges
Useful links
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE Global Research, Bangalore

3. Copyright and IR: Worries or Perceptions?
Copyright law is complex in nature
Fear of “accidentally” violating copyright
Rights/Permissions: Time consuming
RoMEO: “Green” is not clear cut
Can we trust Librarian’s/IR Manager’s copyright expertise?
RoMEO/Sherpa Publisher
Copyright Database
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

4. Copyright, Infringement and Fair use…
Copyright Definition
the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work)
Source: Webster’s Dictionary
Copyright Infringement
Copyright infringement is using someone else's work without getting rights holders permission
Fair use
Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

5. Possible copyright Threats/Challenges
Authors giving away the copyright to their publications
Publisher’s copyright title transfer agreements
Different countries have different rules and traditions regarding copyright
Lack of IR copyright polices
Photocopying and scanning of documents, images, artworks
Document Delivery Service
Inter Library Loan
Addition of newspaper clippings
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

6. What makes you IR compliant …
Awareness about copyright
Information Classification/security policy
Rights negotiation
Commitment to compliance
FAQs, Roadmaps on copyright
Need for policies with every stakeholder – Author, Institution, third party content owner and the user
Each IR needs its own “conditions of deposit” (words shouldn’t scare authors off from depositing)
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

7. Trends and Challenges …
Increasing awareness about copyright
Commitment on compliance: CCC and rightsphere
Digital form of Content
Technology: Boon or barrier?
Rights-holder’s issues
Need for Indian equivalent of CCC/CLA
SHERPA/RoMEO Solutions
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

9. Useful Links… RoMEO Project Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC)
SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC)
Copyright Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
Indian Copyright Office
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

10. Project RoMEO
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

11. SHERPA/RoMEO Project
The RoMEO Project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) was a JISC funded project (2002/3) at the University of Loughborough to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK community under the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
SHEPA database helps to find out what permissions are normally given as part of each's copyright transfer agreement
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

12. What Colors mean

16. Thank you! Questions?
Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

17. Questions/Discussion…