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The UK’s European university
Copyright Literacy Strategy:
Kick-offworkshop
Chris Morrison, Copyright, Licensing & Policy
Manager – 23 May 2019

2.
Workshop agenda
Time Item Who
2:00-2:10pm Introductions All
2:10-2:15pm Project overview CM
2:15-2:30pm Copyright literacy and Higher Education CM
2:30-3:00pm Mapping copyright related activities at
Kent
All
3:00-3:10pm Coffee/tea break
3:10-3:25pm Review of the University of Kent
Copyright Policy
CM
3:25-3:50pm Mapping out a University of Kent
copyright literacy strategy
All
3:50-4:00pm Next steps CM

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CHRIS MORRISON
@cbowiemorrison

4.
copyrightliteracy.org
@UKCopyrightLit

5.
Project Deliverables and/or Desired Outcomes
• Map copyright related activities across the
institution
• Review and update copyright policy
• Review and update copyright guidance
• Review and update copyright education
programme
• Create training/educational materials
• Create institutional copyright literacy strategy

6.
“acquiring and demonstrating the
appropriate knowledge, skills and
behaviours to enable the ethical
creation and use of copyright
material.”
Definition of Copyright Literacy
Secker and Morrison, 2016, p.211

7.
Education
not training
Balance between content
and approach
Getting comfortable with
uncertainty
Avoiding binaries
?
What does it mean?

8.
What is copyright?
Works
(The things it protects)
Usages
(The activities it regulates)
Licences
(Legal use with permission)
Exceptions
(Legal use without permission)

9.
Key UK provisions for universities
Research &
private study
Text & data
mining
Quotation
Orphan
works
Illustration for
instruction
Library privilegeDedicated terminals
Educational
recording
Educational
copying
Educational
performance

10.
Copyright literacy research
• Copyright specialists in UK universities
• who are they and what do they do?
https://kar.kent.ac.uk/70443/
• MA in copyright law at King’s College London
• Interpretations of Illustration for Instruction in UK
universities
https://kar.kent.ac.uk/73310/
• Research by UUK/GuildHE Copyright
Negotiation and Advisory Committee (CNAC)
• Response to UK government 2019 call for evidence
on impact of copyright reforms

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University interpretations of copyright law
• Examples of good practice
• But inconsistently applied across the sector
• Tensions within academia
• Copyright difficult to communicate
• Issues with legislative drafting
• Locating latent flexibility in the law
Morrison (2018) - https://kar.kent.ac.uk/73310/

12.
Academic perceptions
Were you aware that UK copyright law changed in 2014?
Are you confident that you understand enough about
copyright?
UUK/GuildHE survey (2019) n = 464 (Kent responses n = 56)
Kent: 32%
Kent: 68%
Kent: 32%
Kent: 68%

13.
Support for academics
Do you know where to go for copyright advice?
135 out of 464 respondents (29%) mentioned the library
as a place they would go for copyright advice.
UUK/GuildHE survey (2019) n = 464 (Kent responses n = 56)
Kent: 57%
Kent: 43%

14.
Mapping copyright activities at Kent
• Which activities present copyright
problems/challenges?
• What behaviours do we observe?
• What behaviours do we want to see?
• What steps might we take to address these?

15.
Coffee/tea break
Photo by Cyril Saulnier on Unsplash

16.
Into the final straight
Next steps
Mapping
out a
copyright
literacy
strategy
Reviewing
the
copyright
policy

17.
Copyright policy
• Is responsibility still correctly defined?
• Is Information Services’ role still appropriate?
• Is the copyright officer role still valid?
• Is the risk management section still valid?
• Should we make explicit reference to copyright
exceptions?
• Do we want to change or add to the Licences
section? E.g. relationship between licence and
exception
• Is the copyright notices section still valid?
• Should it mention ownership of copyright?

18.
Copyright Literacy Strategy
• What is the vision?
• How does it map to the University Strategy?
• What time period should it cover?
• Are there particular objectives for us to aim for?
• If so, how should we measure them?
• Should there be a steering/working group?

19.
Next steps
• Communications
• Next meeting
• Anything else?

20.
Further reading
copyrightliteracy.org
Hatch, Philippa and Morrison, Chris and Secker, Jane (2017) A study of copyright
specialists in UK educational and cultural institutions: Who are they and what do they
do? https://kar.kent.ac.uk/70443/
Morrison, C (2018) Copyright and digital literacy: rules, risk and creativity. In: Reedy,
K. and Parker, J. (Eds.), Digital Literacy Unpacked. (pp. 97-108). London: Facet
Publishing. ISBN 178330197X https://kar.kent.ac.uk/70446/
Morrison, C (2018) Illustration for Instruction and the UK Higher Education Sector:
Perceptions of risk and sources of authority. Unpublished masters dissertation at
King’s College London. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/73310/
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
Secker, J and Morrison C. (2016) Copyright and E-learning: a guide for practitioners.
Facet Publishing: London.

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Credits
All original work in this presentation is available for reuse under a Creative Commons
Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 licence. All other content is used either under licence or fair
dealing exceptions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Portrait pictures of Chris Morrison by Matt Wilson © University of Kent
Pictograms illustrating copyright components from copyright the card game ©
copyrightliteracy.org CC-BY-NC-SA

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THE UK’S
EUROPEAN
UNIVERSITY
www.kent.ac.uk