This College wishes to digitise all old dissertations and theses, getting rid of the originals and replacing yards of shelves of crumbling paper with a few discs. We hope.
For the future, we shall get students to sign an agreement either to pass all copyright in their college work to the college, or to share the copyright equally. In future, work will be submitted electronically. It is the past stuff we are worried about.
3 problems here:
1) in the absence of any agreement whatsoever in the past, can we just go ahead and copy these old theses ? Most of the students could not be contacted. We are not going to publish the material.
2) do other colleges insist on retaining entire or shared rights to the copyright in students' work ?
3) Can anyone with experience of digitising old theses recommend any efficient/cheap/reliable commercial services for doing this ?
Regards Atalanta
I'm in a similar situation and have the same sort of concerns. Have you checked out the EThOS project and ...
Sarah Brooks
02/02/07 12:08
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