Chris Morrison and Jane Secker from copyrightliteracy.org presented an invited keynote talk at the BOBCATSSS 21 conference on 21 January 2021. They focus on the challenges of copyright in the digital age with a focus on education and the role of librarians and information professionals.

1. COPYRIGHT AND
ONLINE LEARNING
AT A TIME OF CRISIS
CHRIS MORRISON, UNIVERSITY OF KENT
DR JANE SECKER, CITY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
BOBCATSSS 2021
21ST JANUARY 2021

2. Dr Jane Secker, Senior Lecturer
Educational Development,
City, University of London
Chris Morison
Copyright, Licensing & Policy Manager
University of Kent

3. COPYRIGHTLITERACY.OR
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4. PLAYFUL APPROACHES TO
COPYRIGHT
https://copyrightliteracy.org/resou
rces/copyright-the-card-game/
https://copyrightliteracy.org/res
ources/the-publishing-trap/
https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/icepops-international-copyright-literacy-event-with-
playful-opportunities-for-practitioners-and-scholars/

5. EDUCATION AND THE
PANDEMIC
Photo by Mohammad Shahhosseini on Unsplash

6. 23 MARCH 2020: UK
LOCKDOWN

7. WONKHE BLOG POST
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/will-the-pandemic-force-universities-to-address-the-challenges-of-copyright-2/?

8. COPYRIGHT LITERACY
Todorova, T. et al. Information Professionals and Copyright Literacy: A Multinational
Study. Library Management Journal, 2017, 38 (6/7).
Jane with Joumana, Tania and Serap at ECIL 2017

9. COPYRIGHT LITERACY
“acquiring and demonstrating the
appropriate knowledge, skills and
behaviours to enable the ethical creation
and use of copyright material.”
Secker and Morrison, 2016, p.211

10. IFLA COPYRIGHT LITERACY
STATEMENT
AUGUST 2018
“Many librarians’ work involves regularly dealing
with copyright. From public libraries, to
specialized and research libraries, questions
arise around lending, the legal deposit,
accessibility, preservation and many more
activities. Furthermore, librarians are
increasingly becoming a reference point for
library users, faculty members and many others
seeking for clarification on copyright-related
matters.”
https://www.ifla.org/node/67012

11. SO, WHAT’S THE
PROBLEM WITH
COPYRIGHT?
Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash

12. THE COPYRIGHT WARS
Taken from t shirt design by Gnome Enterprises:
https://www.gnomeenterprises.com/product/dinosaur-vs-robot-tee

13. COPYRIGHT AND THE ROMANTIC
AUTHOR
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
by Jakob Schlesinger
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60343060
Immanuel Kant
by Johann Gottlieb Becker
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32860677

14. COPYRIGHT AND DIGITAL
COLLABORATION
Photo by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

15. From Deazley, R (2006) Rethinking Copyright, p.123
THE INTELLECTUAL
COMMONS

16. LITERACIES…
Information
literacy
Digital
literacy
Media literacy
Critical
literacy
Terminology The importance of critical
literacy
How copyright is
framed
Purpose:
functional/critical

17. “…empowers people in all walks of life to seek,
evaluate, use and create information effectively to
achieve their personal, social, occupational and
educational goals. It is a basic human right in a
digital world and promotes social inclusion in all
nations.”
UNESCO Alexandra Proclamation 2005

18. “Warm and Fuzzy”
“Worried, anxious”
“Like the receiver (and
thrower) of a hot
potato”
“Confused, cautious, faintly
nauseous!”
“Frustrated, confused. Can I
risk it? Can my organisation
risk it?”
LIBRARIANS’ EXPERIENCES OF
COPYRIGHT

19. PHENOMENOGRAPHY
Category 4:
Copyright is an
opportunity for
negotiation,
collaboration and
co-construction of
understanding
Category 1:
Copyright is a problem
Bridging the gap
Category 2:
Copyright is complicated and shifting
Category 3:
Copyright is a known entity
requiring coherent messages

20. COPYRIGHT AND ONLINE
LEARNING

21. OUR RESPONSE –
MARCH 2020
https://copyrightlitera
cy.org/2020/03/18/co
pyright-fair-dealing-
and-online-teaching-
at-a-time-of-crisis/
https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-
events/webinars-copyright-and-online-learning/

22. COPYRIGHT CRISIS WEBINARS IN
NUMBERS
29 100
5412
628
941
Webinars since March
2020
Participants on average at
each webinar
Page views on
copyrighliteracy.org webinar
page
Number of posts on LIS-Copyseek from
March-December 2020
LIS-Copyseek membership (up from
592)

23. WEBINAR IN PICTURES

24. GUEST PRESENTATIONS
Brigitte Vezina
Creative Commons
Kyle K Courtney
Harvard University
Dr Emily Hudson
King’s College London
Dr Carys Craig,
Osgoode Hall Law School &
Bob Tarantino, Dentons LLP

25. EBOOK LICENSING
https://academicebookinvestigation.org/

26. OPEN EDUCATIONAL
PRACTICES

27. DEFINITION: OPEN EDUCATIONAL
PRACTICES
“teaching and research practices that espouse
openness including activities such as open
teaching, the production and dissemination of open
educational resources, publishing in open access
journals, keeping a professional blog, and sharing
of research data in online venues.”
Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship
by George Veletsianos and Royce Kimmons (2012)

28. FILM AND AUDIOVISUAL
WORKS
Photo by Noom Peerapong on Unsplash

29. JOIN THE COOL GANG…
https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-groups/copyright-and-online-learning-sig

30. USA, UK, Portugal,
Czech Republic,
Poland, Germany
Kyrgyzstan,
Uruguay, Jamaica,
New Zealand

31. UNIVERSITY OF KENT COPYRIGHT
LITERACY STRATEGY
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/copyrightliteracykent/launch-
of-the-university-of-kent-copyright-literacy-strategy/

32. COPYRIGHT LITERACY STRATEGY
VISION

33. COPYRIGHT LITERACY STRATEGY
VISION
By 2025 people working and studying at the University of
Kent will feel confident in making informed decisions about
using copyright material and will understand the role
copyright plays in innovation and creation of new
knowledge.
The University’s approach to copyright education will
support its strategic objectives by informing policy and
practice.

34. DIGITAL LITERACIES AND OPEN
PRACTICE AT CITY, UNIVERSITY OF
LONDON
https://blogs.city.ac.uk/dilop/

35. CRITICAL COPYRIGHT
LITERACY
1. History and
philosophy
2. Boundaries
and balance
3. Licensing
4.
Communication
and sharing
5.
Consequences
and risk

37. The pandemic has
highlighted the
problems with
copyright and
technology

38. OUR BIG MESSAGE #2
Copyright literacy is
about addressing these
problems using
information and critical
literacy practices

39. OUR BIG MESSAGE #3
We need to reimagine
copyright education and
the role of the librarian to
address changes in digital
practices

40. THANK YOU!
jane.secker@city.ac.uk
@jsecker
c.morrison@kent.ac.uk
@cbowiemorrison
@UKCopyrightLit

41. REFERENCES
Craig, C. and Tarantino, B. (2020) “An Hundred Stories in Ten Days”: COVID-19 Lessons for Culture, Learning
and Copyright Law https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3691294
Deazley, R (2006) Rethinking Copyright: history, theory, language. Edward Elgar: London
Gadd, E.; Morrison, C.; Secker, J. (2019). The Impact of Open Access on Teaching—How Far Have We Come?
Publications, 7, 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7030056
Hudson, E and Wragg, P. (2020). Proposals for Copyright Law and Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3617720
IFLA (2018) Statement on Copyright Education and Copyright Literacy. https://www.ifla.org/node/67012
Morrison, C (2018) Illustration for Instruction and the UK Higher Education Sector: Perceptions of risk and
sources of authority. Masters dissertation, King’s College London. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/73310/
Morrison, C & Secker, J. (2017b). Understanding librarians’ experiences of copyright: findings from a
phenomenographic study of UK information professionals. Library Management, 38 (6/7)
Morrison, C & Secker, J. (2020) Will the pandemic force universities to address the challenges of copyright?
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/will-the-pandemic-force-universities-to-address-the-challenges-of-copyright-2/
Secker, J. & Morrison, C. (2016) Copyright and E-Learning: A guide for practitioners. Facet Publishing: London,
2nd Edition http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=300600#.XuofAWhKjDc
Todorova, T. et al. Information Professionals and Copyright Literacy: A Multinational Study. Library
Management Journal, 2017, 38 (6/7).
University of Kent (2020) Copyright Literacy Strategy 2020. Available at:
https://media.www.kent.ac.uk/se/13046/kent-copyright-literacy-strategy-2020.pdf
Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2012). Assumptions and challenges of open scholarship. The International
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