1. COPYRIGHT AND
ONLINE LEARNING
AT A TIME OF CRISIS
CHRIS MORRISON, UNIVERSITY OF KENT
DR JANE SECKER, CITY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
ALT SUMMER SUMMIT
26 AUGUST 2020

2. copyrightliteracy.org

3. WEEKLY WEBINARS
https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/webinars-copyright-and-online-
learning/

4. STARTER FOR 10…
Have you attended or watched the recordings of our
webinars?
1. No
2. Yes, one or two
3. Most of them
4. I wouldn’t miss it – it’s the highlight of my week

5. COPYRIGHT AND ONLINE
LEARNING

6. 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

7. OUR RESPONSE –
MARCH 2020
Original blog post on copyrightliteracy.org
https://copyrightliteracy.org/2020/03/18/copyright-fair-dealing-and-online-
teaching-at-a-time-of-crisis/

8. LICENCES
Primary e-resource licences
CLA Licence
Bespoke permission
ERA Licence and BoB
Open educational resources
www.copyrightcardgame.com

9. COPYRIGHT
EXCEPTIONS
www.copyrightcardgame.com

10. COMPLETE THE
SENTENCE
Copyright at a time of crisis is like…
Prize for the best answer

11. COPYRIGHT IN
EDUCATION
Complexity
Fear of infringement
Copyright ownership
and academic freedom

12. LIKE THE RECEIVER (AND
THROWER) OF A HOT POTATO

13. TAMING THE HOT
POTATO?

14. OR ALTERNATIVELY…
*© Chris Jones 2020

15. COPYRIGHT CRISIS WEBINARS IN
NUMBERS
• 19 webinars (so far) between 20 March and 21 August 2020
• Averaging around 100 participants (maximum number of
participants 136 on 9/4/20)
• Copyseek members – from 592 to 620 members between 1
May and 24 August 2020
• 20 guest speakers from HEIs and external organisations:
• The British Library
• CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency)
• ERA (Educational Recording Agency)
• PMLL (Printed Music Licensing Limited)
• Jisc Collections
• Harvard University
• Learning on Screen
• Creative Commons

16. WEBINAR IN PICTURES

17. WEBINARS IN SONG

18. OPEN BY DEFAULT
Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash

19. Image: Muppet News Flash

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

21. EBOOK LICENSING
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

22. CLA LICENCE EXTENSION
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-offered-reprieve-
pandemic-book-licensing-battle

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

24. OTHER TOPICS
Copyright education
Creative Commons Licensing
Accessibility
Printed Music
US Fair Use and Controlled Digital Lending
University of Kent Copyright Literacy Strategy
End of term copyright quiz

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

26. QUESTION FOR THE
FLOOR
How has copyright impacted on
you or your institution during the
pandemic?

27. IMPACT OF COPYRIGHT
59%

28. REFLECTIONS
Photo by Faye Cornish on Unsplash

29. JOIN THE COOL GANG…
https://copyrightliteracy.org/2020/08/18/an-alt-special-interest-group-call-
for-founding-members/

30. OUR PANEL
James Bennett,
CLA
Martin Hawksey,
ALT
Lisa Moore, University
of Creative Arts
Dr Emily Hudson,
King’s College London

31. THE JOURNEY
CONTINUES…

32. CREDITS
All content is © Chris Morrison and Jane Secker CC BY with the exception of:
Slide 5 - © Facet Publishing
Slides 8-9 – logos from copyright the card game CC 0 (with exception of IPO, OGL, Creative Commons, CLA and ERA
logos which are used with permission)
Slide 11 - Complexity by John Barkiple on Unsplash
Slide 11 - Panic by Nate Steiner - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nate/321938695/ CC0
Slide 11 - Freedom Photo by Kristina V on Unsplash
Slide 12 - © Sam Morrison
Slides 13-14 – Jacket by Kevin Doncaster CC BY https://www.flickr.com/photos/kmdoncaster/30207120626/sizes/l/
Slides 16-17 – Various © holders – used with permission
Slide 18 – Open Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash
Slide 19 – Muppet News Flash © Jim Henson
Slide 20 - © Wonkhe
Slide 21 - Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
Slide 22 – © Times Higher Education
Slide 23 - Photo by Noom Peerapong on Unsplash
Slide 25 - © University of Kent, CC BY
Slide 29 - Photo by Faye Cornish on Unsplash
Slide 30 - Various © holders – used with permission

33. REFERENCES
Gadd, E. (2017). Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?
The Scholarly Kitchen https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/10/31/guest-post-
academics-copyright-ownership-ignorant-confused-misled/
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
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
copyrightliteracy.org