15th December 2006, 01:34 PM
Unitof1
'who owns the copyright of the archaeology found on stat. undertakers pipelines?'
What do you mean by copyright - are you referring to the copyright of the reports, or of the paper archive - in either case it remains with the contractor that produced the written work, but usually has a proviso that it may be used and/or copied for research purposes of development control purposes.
My experience with the ownership/archiving of material from pipelines is that it is much the same as for any other project except more timeconsuming to sort out as you have to deal with lots of landowners rather than just one. Usually not all landowners respond to letters sent out, although it is possible to persuade the recipient museum to accept the archive if you have several signed agreements and evidence that you have tried to contact the others. If any landowner wants to have the finds from their land returned to them, then this is fine and they will be delivered ready packed and boxed.
I'm not sure how or why the archaeologists should be seen as being contemptuous towards landowners.
Beamo
'who owns the copyright of the archaeology found on stat. undertakers pipelines?'
What do you mean by copyright - are you referring to the copyright of the reports, or of the paper archive - in either case it remains with the contractor that produced the written work, but usually has a proviso that it may be used and/or copied for research purposes of development control purposes.
My experience with the ownership/archiving of material from pipelines is that it is much the same as for any other project except more timeconsuming to sort out as you have to deal with lots of landowners rather than just one. Usually not all landowners respond to letters sent out, although it is possible to persuade the recipient museum to accept the archive if you have several signed agreements and evidence that you have tried to contact the others. If any landowner wants to have the finds from their land returned to them, then this is fine and they will be delivered ready packed and boxed.
I'm not sure how or why the archaeologists should be seen as being contemptuous towards landowners.
Beamo