Navigate Copyright with Confidence
Learn how to ensure that copyright protected materials and objects in your collections can be shared and communicated digitally.
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Need
Professionals working in cultural heritage need copyright literacy to know how to assess and understand the degree of risk involved in communicating copyright protected content digitally to others both within and across borders. OCEAN was created to meet this need.
Our vision is to inform and empower professionals in the cultural heritage community, recognizing that copyright and related issues are foundational to our networked, digital world. There is a convergence of copyright issues across cultural heritage organizations, such as museums, libraries, and archives and by addressing these points of convergence at scale, we can affect positive change.
Affecting Change
Scaling Up
OCEAN amplifies the capacity of copyright experts working with or within libraries, archives and museums to deliver quality education specifically designed to cover copyright issues critical to library, archive and museum missions. It’s a fundamental issue of scale and a significant infrastructure requirement.
Latest News
Board Member Kyle K. Courtney Named Executive Director of the Social Law Library
March 11, 2026 at 1:00:00 PM
Boston's Social Law Library has announced that OCEAN board member Kyle K. Courtney has been named as their new Executive Director following an extensive search by the Library's Board. As they note in the announcement,…
OCEAN Welcomes Tom Clareson to the Board!
January 19, 2026 at 12:00:00 PM
We are very pleased to announce that Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant for Digital & Preservation Services, LYRASIS has joined our board, effective December 2025. Tom brings a wealth of substantive knowledge about copyright, cultural heritage,…