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Protection Section 6 So how can you protect your IP in your academic materials and publications? One simple and practical thing you can do is place a copyright notice (for example © University of West Ham 2013) on your work. This will remind anyone using your work that copyright exists in the work and that action may be taken. This is particularly important as a new European directive has been proposed which would make the use and publication of copyright protected works much easier when the copyright owner cannot be found. It is estimated that 40% of the materials at the British Library form part of these orphaned works. E-Protection You can use a number of measures to protect your work if it is available electronically, for example, on the internet: copyright statement which sets out the dos and don'ts n n licence agreements with the people who use your materials n technical measures e.g. digital rights management (DRM). Copyright statement A copyright statement can be as simple as saying "All rights of the owner in this work are reserved. Unauthorised copying prohibited". You could include a more detailed statement which would let people know what they were entitled to do with your work, something along the lines of: "The University of West Ham allows you to take one copy of the work solely for your own personal use. If you would like to make any other use of the work, you must obtain the Institution's express prior written consent before making any such use"; or "You can download the work onto a hard disk solely for your personal use provided that you include our copyright notice on each copy and that you make no alterations to any of the work and do not use any of the work in any other work or publication in whatever medium". 32

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