EPP -Lynne Norris

Today as part of EPP, a Lawyer who works closely with Simon over at Colchester Avenue Colchester Avenue visited us. She has worked with the University giving lectures on Law and copyright issues since 1991. Previously she had worked in the Law Department of the then Polytechnic of Wales since 1987. If you want to make sure your not doing anything wrong this would be the person to look up.

I’m in two minds about this lecture. This woman had a lot of information to give us. She even emailed out two PDF jam packed with stuff! On the other hand, a lot of what she went through, we covered before during and earlier module with Simon. A number of people in the class gave their own presentations about copyright and copyright associated laws. I suppose it was nice to have it refreshed in our memory.

There was a few very interesting points made during the presentation. I was mostly interested in the concept of “how much of a product do we own”. Apparently, if for example I create an image and copyright it, someone comes along and wants to use that image for himself or herself. How much of that image do they have to change so they can use it without breaching my copyright? It think its about 30% of the image has to be changed (correct me if i m wrong) - Interesting!

Another interesting subject she mentioned was the Employer Employee copyright. If I work for a company and design literally anything, that company can then hold the copyright of it. The company gets to make whatever profits from the product. The only rights I reserve is a credit of recognition