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22 May 2018

Museums and Their GDPR Data Protection Obligations

Prior to the implementation of GDPR across the UK (transposed into UK law as the Data Protection Act 2018), I wanted to address some questions that I have been asked during my recent training sessions, although the majority of these issues would have been the case already under the Data Protection Act 1998. 1.Should personal […]

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21 September 2017

Licensing Our Heritage

Anne Buky, Licensing Consultant and NKCC Associate, looks at how museums and heritage organisations have developed strong brand licensing programmes. (c) IWM Working with museums and heritage organisations is an immense privilege. When asked why I do so it is not hard to find the answers – breath-taking collections, beautiful buildings, experts with encyclopaedic knowledge […]

28 June 2017

Ethel: First World War Heroine – Copyright Lessons for the 21st Century

Ethel Bilborough was a journalist and an artist, who wrote a personal diary during the outbreak of the First World War. Her diary, which was handwritten, is owned by the Imperial War Museums in London (IWM). More about Ethel can be found here: http://www.chislehurst-society.org.uk/Pages/About/People/BilbroughEthel.html This is primarily the copyright story of how Ethel’s diary became […]

2 February 2017

Museums, Collecting & Copyright: An Uncomfortable (Post) Truth?

In a post truth, post Trump, Brexit world, museums, archives, libraries and other cultural heritage organisations have more of a vital role now in collecting, curating and providing access to ephemera and objects than ever before. Indeed, museums in the US are actively collecting signs, placards, posters and objects that protesters have donated or left […]

13 May 2016

A First World War Diary: A 21st Century Copyright Problem

Ethel Bilborough was a journalist and an artist, who wrote a personal diary during the outbreak of the First World War. Her diary, which was handwritten, is owned by the Imperial War Museums in London (IWM). This is primarily the copyright story of how Ethel’s diary became a hard-back book published by Ebury Press in […]

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