Intellectual Property and Copyright: IMPACT Best Practice Guide

Abstract

• It may not possible or practical to find certain rights owners and so gain their permissions. If their material is still required for the project, it is important therefore to be able to identify and mange the risks involved in using a third party’s material where no permission has been received. In such instances it will be necessary to weigh up the risk of using the material, and having to respond to any rights holder who subsequently approaches, with the benefit that using the material brings to the project.