- UAB Microcredential
- Code: 5215/1
- 1st edition
- Modality: Online
- Credits: 6 ECTS
- Start date: 19/01/2026
- Finish date: 25/03/2026
- Places: 25
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 909 €
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Special price 273 €
Group of application: Amount with the NextGenerationUE Fund discount applied
- Teaching language: Spanish
- Location: Online with live (synchronous) classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
he increase in audiovisual production has led to greater demand for archival material. The acquisition of images has placed copyright at the core of all aspects related to the use, exploitation, and management of content. How to increase archive profitability, manage relations with donors, depositaries, and users, and negotiate uses and image licensing are some of the topics covered in this module.
Objectives:
- Understand the legal framework surrounding the production, handling, and preservation of audiovisual documents, including copyright and intellectual property.
- Identify the different types of rights associated with audiovisual works, such as public domain, orphan works, and the concept of fair use.
- Understand how copyright collecting societies operate and their role in the audiovisual sector.
- Identify emerging professional roles in audiovisual document management in the digital age and the skills required.
- Analyze strategies to increase the profitability of audiovisual archives and manage relationships with donors, depositaries, and users.
Course content:
1. Legal Framework for Audiovisual Production.
- Introduction to copyright and its importance in audiovisual production.
- Analysis of legislation on intellectual property and cultural heritage protection.
- Study of image rights and privacy in audiovisual works.
- Understanding public domain, orphan works, and fair use.
2. Copyright Collecting Societies.
- Overview of key collecting societies in Spain (SGAE, VEGAP, DAMA, etc.).
- Understanding the services they offer and their relevance to rights management.
- Case studies on rights negotiation and copyright management in the audiovisual sector.
3. New Professional Roles in Audiovisual Document Management.
- Study of how the digital revolution is transforming archival and documentation professions.
- Training in the necessary skills for roles such as Researcher, Archival Producer, image verifier, and social media manager.
- Discussion of new technologies and their application to the preservation and dissemination of audiovisual materials.
4. Strategies for the Profitability of Audiovisual Archives.
- Techniques for managing relationships with donors, depositaries, and users.
- Strategies for negotiating uses and selling image rights.
- Study of business models and opportunities in the commercialization of audiovisual content.
Enrollment:
If you're interested in deepening your understanding of the legal framework and new professional dynamics in audiovisual document management, dont hesitate to enroll. This course is ideal for sector professionals as well as those looking to enter this ever-evolving field. Dont miss the chance to train in a crucial area for the management and exploitation of audiovisual documentary heritage.
- Legal framework: Latin American perspective.
- Main collective management organizations for copyright.
- Archivists, documentalists, and audiovisual document managers: new professional profiles.
- Managers or professionals in centers, institutions, or archives that preserve and handle audiovisual and sound documentation.
- Staff involved in the processing and management of audiovisual documents in institutions such as television and radio archives, audiovisual production companies, media libraries, sound libraries, film libraries, or similar centers.
- Professionals seeking retraining to access new career opportunities in the audiovisual commercial exploitation sector.
Objectives:
- Understand the legal framework surrounding the production, handling, and preservation of audiovisual documents, including copyright and intellectual property.
- Identify the different types of rights associated with audiovisual works, such as public domain, orphan works, and the concept of fair use.
- Understand how copyright collecting societies operate and their role in the audiovisual sector.
- Identify emerging professional roles in audiovisual document management in the digital age and the skills required.
- Analyze strategies to increase the profitability of audiovisual archives and manage relationships with donors, depositaries, and users.
Course content:
1. Legal Framework for Audiovisual Production.
- Introduction to copyright and its importance in audiovisual production.
- Analysis of legislation on intellectual property and cultural heritage protection.
- Study of image rights and privacy in audiovisual works.
- Understanding public domain, orphan works, and fair use.
2. Copyright Collecting Societies.
- Overview of key collecting societies in Spain (SGAE, VEGAP, DAMA, etc.).
- Understanding the services they offer and their relevance to rights management.
- Case studies on rights negotiation and copyright management in the audiovisual sector.
3. New Professional Roles in Audiovisual Document Management.
- Study of how the digital revolution is transforming archival and documentation professions.
- Training in the necessary skills for roles such as Researcher, Archival Producer, image verifier, and social media manager.
- Discussion of new technologies and their application to the preservation and dissemination of audiovisual materials.
4. Strategies for the Profitability of Audiovisual Archives.
- Techniques for managing relationships with donors, depositaries, and users.
- Strategies for negotiating uses and selling image rights.
- Study of business models and opportunities in the commercialization of audiovisual content.
Enrollment:
If you're interested in deepening your understanding of the legal framework and new professional dynamics in audiovisual document management, dont hesitate to enroll. This course is ideal for sector professionals as well as those looking to enter this ever-evolving field. Dont miss the chance to train in a crucial area for the management and exploitation of audiovisual documentary heritage.
Contents
- Legal framework: European perspective.- Legal framework: Latin American perspective.
- Main collective management organizations for copyright.
- Archivists, documentalists, and audiovisual document managers: new professional profiles.
Career opportunities
People who wish to specialize or have an interest in these types of documents and who work or want to work as:- Managers or professionals in centers, institutions, or archives that preserve and handle audiovisual and sound documentation.
- Staff involved in the processing and management of audiovisual documents in institutions such as television and radio archives, audiovisual production companies, media libraries, sound libraries, film libraries, or similar centers.
- Professionals seeking retraining to access new career opportunities in the audiovisual commercial exploitation sector.
Scholarships and financial aid
Within the framework of the plan for the development of university microcredentials, tuition scholarships are offered.
Funded by the "Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan - Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU."
See the application information on the FUAB Microcredentials scholarships and grants and application information page.
Coordinating centres
FUAB Formació. Archivística y Gestión de Documentos
Collaborating centres
Arxivers sense Fronteres Espanya (AsF Espanya)
Contact
Ariadna Morente Pagès
Phone: 935929710