http://casper.jiscinvolve.org Updates, reflections and news from the Copyright Advice and Support Project for Electronic Resources Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:46:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the more surprising findings from the reproduce projects has been the absence of a consistent understanding of 'reuse' and 'repurposing' of digital content. For JISC and JISC Collections it was always meant to mean a very active engagement with that content, disaggregating, copying, pasting, embedding, adapting and generally taking ... http://casper.jiscinvolve.org/2008/09/19/what-do-we-mean-by-reuse-and-repurpose/ It is recognised that though the licensing of electronic resources is essential for many resources, the time and cost involved in the negotiations and legal work, can in the case of low cost resources mean more money is being spent on lawyers than the content itself. As a result NISO (the ... http://casper.jiscinvolve.org/2008/04/28/knowing-what-you-can-do-with-content-from-university-web-sites/ All of the RepRODUCE projects are required to deposit the learning objects generated as outputs of their projects in JORUM. This is important as a way of guaranteeing access for UK HE and FE to the outputs of publicly funded projects once those projects have ended and of populating Jorum. Currently JORUM ... http://casper.jiscinvolve.org/2008/04/01/8/ We visited JISCLegal recently to discuss JISC CASPER, rights management and rights clearance. It was a very helpful meeting, that time and again came back to one simple fact about rights clearance. "You will always need to ask the question, 'Who owns this content and have they granted me permission to ... http://casper.jiscinvolve.org/2008/04/01/asking-the-question/ The Project start up meeting was held at Aston University Business School last month. It was our first time meeting the projects and our first official event as CASPER. It would be our chance to introduce ourselves, explain the aims and objectives of the project, discuss the work that ... http://casper.jiscinvolve.org/2008/03/21/reproduce-start-up-meeting/ Well we have finally got the blog for Project Casper up and running so here is a brief introduction about what we have been doing so far. First things first what is CASPER? CASPER stands for Copyright Advice and Support Project for Electronic Resources The project is being funded by JISC and ... http://casper.jiscinvolve.org/2008/03/13/introducing-casper/