The road to copyright literacy: a journey towards library

empowerment

Chris Morrison City, University of LondonUniversity of Kent

Jane Secker

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“Excited - like the idea that copyright is a gateway. Should enable access to culture, rather than barrier”

“Warm and Fuzzy”

“Love it! It's kept me in the lifestyle to which I have become accustomed”

“Confused, cautious, faintly nauseous!”

“Frustrated, confused. Can I risk it? Can my organisationrisk it?”

“Worried, anxious”

“Like the receiver (and thrower) of a hot potato”

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AFRAIDGeorge Lucas

A long time ago, in a country (not that)

far away....

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

Hargreaves Review

The survey

Copyright the Card Game

Works usages licences exceptions

Where are we now?

Phenomenography

Copyright as an experience

Category 4:

Copyright is an

opportunity for

negotiation,

collaboration and

co-construction

of understanding

Category 1: Copyright is a problem

Category 2:

Copyright is complicated and

shifting

Category 3:

Copyright is a

known entity

requiring coherent

messages

Category 1: copyright is a problem

“It’s not like other areas where I can help people

and people want an answer…. I have done this job

for years and I didn’t used to get these sorts of

queries.”

Focus Group participant, January 2016

Category 2: copyright is complicated

“For non-copyright queries the answer is yes or

no, or a series of instructions. For copyright

queries the actual answer is maybe, maybe – and

that is why it is different - you can’t give them the

answer they want.”

Focus Group participant, January 2016

Category 3: copyright is a known entity

“….the internet has made that all the more

important hasn’t it? Otherwise you are laying open

the institution to getting into trouble with

publishers if they don’t adhere to what they are

supposed to be doing.”

Focus Group participant, January 2016

Category 4: copyright is an opportunity

“I always think when I am explaining [copyright]

to people I would like to be more aggressive … in

terms of these are our collections and we manage

them properly and in so doing so we might make

them openly available because it is within our gift

to do and no one is being affected if we put 100

year old census data online.”

Focus Group participant, January 2016

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

A world without copyright literacy

Things go unsaid

Reduces the

public domain

Increases costs

Risk aversion

Bridging the gaps

Rightsholders

& libraries

Lawyers &

librarians

Activists &

practitioners

Creators &

consumers

The role of the copyright officer

Critical copyright literacy

Education

not training

Balance between

content and approach

Getting comfortable

with uncertainty

Avoiding binaries

?

COPYRIGHT LITERACY IN ACTION

Communities of practice

Rethinking copyright education for librarians

Bridging the gap between a one day course and a PG Diploma in

copyright law

Focusing on what librarians need to know

about copyright

Focusing on their role as

copyright educators

New professionals

Copyright literacy is a journey not a destination

Morrison and Secker (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

THREE THINGS TO LEAVE YOU WITH

Copyright is about knowledge, money

and power

copyrightliteracy.org

Copyright literacy means sharing and

working as a community

copyrightliteracy.org

Librarians! Copyright belongs to you

Own it!

copyrightliteracy.org

Copyright is about knowledge,

money and power

Copyright literacy means sharing

and working as a community

Copyright belongs to you. Own it!

Chris and Jane’s Three Things

copyrightliteracy.org

Join us on the journey!

Embrace copyright

literacy!

Further reading

Morrison, C and Secker J. (2015) Copyright Literacy in the UK: a survey of librarians and other cultural heritage sector professionals. Library and Information Research. 39 (121)http://www.lirgjournal.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/article/view/675

Morrison, C and Secker, J (2016) Exceptions for libraries. Copyrightuser.org. Available online.

Morrison, C and Secker, J. (2016) A Guide to Copyright. Association of University Administrators.

Rios-Amaya, Juliana, Secker, Jane and Morrison, Chris (2016) Lecture recording in higher education: risky business or evolving open practice. LSE / University of Kent, London, UK. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68275/

Secker, J and Morrison, C. (2016) Copyright and E-learning: a guide for practitioners. Facet publishing: London. Chapter 6: Copyright education and training available online.

Todorova, T., Trencheva, T., Kurbanoğlu, S., Dogan G., & Horvat, A. (2014) A Multinational Study on Copyright Literacy Competencies of LIS Professionals. Presentation given at 2nd European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) held in Dubrovnik. October 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2015 from http://ecil2014.ilconf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Todorova.pdf

https://copyrightliteracy.org @UKCopyrightLit

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