8th April 2011, 06:03 PM
The landowner does not have any rights over the copyright of record and photographs: the default position is that copyright belongs to the individual or organisation creating the text or image (and if an employee's contract is silent on the subject, then the employer owns the copyright). Bodies which commission archaeological works may require that all copyright is transferred to them, so it is possibelf or the landowner toe nd up owing the rights, but that it not automatic.
Copyright in the UK is automatic and requires no registration or marking, and therefore your context sheet descriptions are your copyright. Of course it is easier to administer copyright if it is clear who the author i. However copyright applied to the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves, and so only a description quoted verbatim might be protected. Summarisation of information into another form is permissible without the need for copyright licence from the creator, but attribution IS required.
Copyright in the UK is automatic and requires no registration or marking, and therefore your context sheet descriptions are your copyright. Of course it is easier to administer copyright if it is clear who the author i. However copyright applied to the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves, and so only a description quoted verbatim might be protected. Summarisation of information into another form is permissible without the need for copyright licence from the creator, but attribution IS required.