Lesley Ellen Harris - lawyer, author, educator - is involved in copyright management, protecting and profiting from digital content, developing copyright policies, using third party content, licensing digital content, copyright reform and more!
1. Developing A Copyright Policy -- write your own Policy in just 6 weeks
2. Canadian Copyright Law -- get a primer/review and an update on copyright revision too
3. Introduction to Copyright Management -- leads to a Certificate in Copyright Management
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Need a consultation on copyright, licensing or managing content? Looking for an instructor for a seminar? Need assistance developing and writing a copyright policy? Preparing copyright guidelines and copyright education materials for your Intranet? For these and other services, email Lesley.
What Lesley’s clients say:
Canadiana.org, one of Lesley’s clients, stated an appreciation of her consulting services, in its annual report. See The President’s Report at: http://www.canadiana.org/pdf/en/annualreport-2006-07.pdf.
Yukon Government: “We engaged Lesley to develop a Photography Policy for the Government of Yukon. In addition to developing the Policy, Lesley provided workshops for government communications officers and local private sector photographers. Our relationship with some local photographers had become strained as a result of misunderstandings over a variety of copyright and licensing issues that had arose across government. Lesley's workshops clarified the rights and obligations of copyright owners, moral rights and other licensing issues. Lesley was able to strike a balance between the interests of our photography industry and our needs as a client. Lesley's services and advice were provided in a timely and professional manner. Added value was provided through ongoing dialogue and advice as the Policy was being developed. In the end, we have developed a Photography Policy that is regarded as Best Practise standard and a healthy relationship has been restored between the government and our photography industry.” Denny Kobayashi,Yukon Government
Online Courses
Since 2002, Lesley has developed and teaches online courses on copyright, licensing digital content, and managing copyright issues. Register here. Members of OCLC, Lyrasis, or NFais should register through these organizations.
Copyrightlaws.com and SLA/Click University jointly offer a 7 course Certificate in Copyright Management. Individual courses may taken as well. Open to all. See www.clickuniversity.com.
For information on a university-level course on Canadian Copyright Law, click here.
Newsletters
The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter (quarterly publication since 1997.) Click to view a sample of this unique international newsletter, written in plain English.
Books
1. Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians, 2nd ed. (ALA Editions)
(Book Blog at: http://licensingdigitalcontent.blogspot.com)
2. A Canadian Museum’s Guide to Developing a Licensing Strategy (Canadian Heritage Information Network)
3. Canadian Copyright Law, 3rd ed. (McGraw-Hill Ryerson)
4. Digital Property, Currency of the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, out of print)
Updated September 23, 2009 11:22 AM
Email Lesley at “contact@copyrightlaws.com”
