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21 September 2023

Building Communities of Copyright Practice Within and Across Cultural Heritage Organisations

By Naomi Korn This post discusses the concept of a Community of Copyright Practice Within and Across Cultural Heritage Organisations. Whilst the concept of a community of copyright practice has been around for a while now mainly across educational establishments[1], it has not been actively applied to cultural heritage organisations. The concept and its applications […]

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16 December 2022

Data Protection Mentoring & Development (6-month programme)

Naomi Korn Associates are pleased to announce that the next cohort of our innovative Data Protection Mentoring and Development programme is now available to book. Starting in January 2023, our programme brings together a small group of staff responsible for data protection for regular training, mentoring, and sharing of best practice.  Participants gain access to: […]

9 November 2020

GDPR Lessons to Learn from the Department of Education’s Data Protection Issues

By Faye Cheung, Researcher The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) recently published its audit report of the Department of Education (DfE). It launched an investigation into DfE after receiving complaints over its handling of the National Pupil Database. The database contains information on every pupil in England – that’s over 21 million data subjects. One of […]

18 February 2019

Copyright and No Deal Brexit for Cultural Heritage and Educational Establishments

By Naomi Korn ©Naomi Korn Associates As well as impacting existing and proposed data protection legislation as discussed in our last blog post, the current Brexit impasse has implications for copyright. The includes the specific impact of a No Deal Brexit on existing UK copyright legislation,  the relationship between existing and future copyright interpretations and the […]

20 September 2018

‘A sledgehammer to Crack a Nut’ – Our Expert’s Take On the EU Copyright Reforms

Our Senior Consultant Charles Oppenheim discusses the implications of EU copyright reforms.

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18 May 2018

Going Back to School?

By Carol Tullo, Senior Consultant The Bookshop and Lottery Agency of Jan de Groot in the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam, Isaac Ouwater, 1779. Photo credit: Rijksmuseum.   The experience of running some Naomi Korn Associates workshops in recent months has been instructive in so many ways!  Helping a range of schools –  principals, teachers, office managers, […]

8 March 2017

A Copyright Shout Out to Schools and School Librarians

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting to CILIP’s Schools Library’s Group. It was a tremendous and highly enjoyable opportunity to discuss the relationship between copyright and contracts, and how copying in schools is a fundamental part of digital literacy, particularly in “Instant Gratification Culture” where anything can be accessed anywhere and […]

12 February 2017

Spaces, Images and Teaching Copyright

Last summer, I had the pleasure to present to a number of University Copyright Experts about – Copyright, Licensing and Digital Images: Teaching the teachers what they can use when they teach. conference-talk At the best of times, the relationship between what content can be used under a licence, and what content can be used […]

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