Copyright Audits

Protect your organisation, unlock content, and manage rights with confidence.

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We specialise in tailored copyright audits for a range of organisations that combine legal knowledge, sector expertise, and a supportive, jargon-free approach.

Museums, galleries and cultural insitutions

Local authorities and public sector bodies

Universities, archives and libraries

Charities and nonprofits

Creative, research and publishing teams

Why Audit your Copyright Policies?

A copyright audit is a strategic review of how your organisation manages intellectual property, ensuring you’re working from a position of clarity and control. It helps you understand your legal position – essential when reviewing staff responsibilities.

With our support, you can:

  • Confidently assess your copyright compliance and risk
  • Identify gaps and inefficiencies in how rights are managed
  • Improve documentation, processes, and staff confidence
  • Make better decisions about digitisation, publishing, and licensing
  • Support governance, legal reporting, and funding readiness
  • Unlock the potential of your content – without the guesswork
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Protect your organisation

Our audits are built around your organisation’s structure, content and challenges. We assess where you are, what’s working and what needs improvement, before producing a clear, prioritised plan for moving forward.

Each copyright audit is bespoke, but typically includes:

1.Review

A review of your copyright policies, procedures and governance

2. Assess

Assessment of risk areas across your workflows and teams

3. Interview

Interviews with key staff to understand current practice

4. Evaluate

Evaluation of licensing, commissioning, reuse and clearance workflows

5. Analyse

Analysis of rights metadata, attribution, and documentation standards

6. Report

A written report with tailored recommendations. Optional board level summary and post-audit support

Ready to start?

If you’re unsure where your organisation stands on copyright, we can help.

Start with an audit and take control of your content, rights, and compliance

Case Study: Manchester City Galleries

As part of a large-scale digitisation project, Manchester City Galleries commissioned Naomi Korn Associates to audit its copyright practices and support rights clearance for hundreds of works.

© 2025 Manchester City Galleries. Image: Andrew Brooks.

Why work with Naomi Korn Associates?

With over 20 years of experience in copyright, data protection, and intellectual property, Naomi Korn Associates brings sector-leading expertise, practical insights, and a friendly, hands-on approach. We’re trusted by some of the UK’s leading cultural, educational, and public sector bodies to help embed lasting compliance.

“We contacted Naomi Korn Associates for copyright/data protection consultancy on a large photographic collection we hold due to the trusted position they occupy within our sector.  Working with them was an extremely useful and informative experience. They took ample time to understand both the context of the collection and of our archives service before working through the collection and generating a clear and comprehensive report which has informed our policies and procedures in this area going forward.”

Hackney Archive

Related Services

Copyright Help Desk

On-demand expert support to help you manage rights, clear content, and handle copyright queries with confidence.

Data Protection

We offer a range of services to help organisations with their data protection responsibilities so that data is managed legally, safely and strategically.

Policies & Procedures

We create and review clear, compliant policies tailored to your organisation’s copyright and data protection needs.