1. The road to copyright literacy:
a journey towards library
empowerment
Chris Morrison
City, University of LondonUniversity of Kent
Jane Secker

2. How does copyright make you
feel Scotland?
Online voting
https://www.menti.com/1e3584
or
Go to www.menti.com and use the code
21 34 88

3. “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”

4. “Confused,
cautious,
faintly
nauseous!”
“Frustrated,
confused. Can I
risk it? Can my
organisation
risk it?”
“Worried, anxious”
“Like the
receiver (and
thrower) of a
hot potato”

5. DON’T
BE
AFRAID
George Lucas

6. A long time ago, in a country (not that)
far away....

10. HOW DID WE GET HERE?

11. Hargreaves Review

12. The survey

13. Copyright the Card Game
Works usages licences exceptions

15. Where are we now?

16. Phenomenography

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

23. A world without copyright literacy
Things go unsaid
Reduces the
public domain
Increases costs
Risk aversion

24. Bridging the gaps
Rightsholders
& libraries
Lawyers &
librarians
Activists &
practitioners
Creators &
consumers

25. The role of the
copyright officer

26. Critical copyright literacy
Education
not training
Balance between
content and approach
Getting comfortable
with uncertainty
Avoiding binaries
?

27. COPYRIGHT LITERACY IN ACTION

28. Communities
of practice

29. 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

30. New professionals

31. Copyright literacy is a
journey not a destination
Morrison and Secker (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

32. THREE THINGS TO LEAVE YOU WITH

33. Copyright is about knowledge, money
and power
copyrightliteracy.org

34. Copyright literacy means sharing and
working as a community
copyrightliteracy.org

35. Librarians! Copyright belongs to you
Own it!
copyrightliteracy.org

36. 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

38. Join us on the journey!
Embrace copyright
literacy!

39. 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

40. Image Credits
Slide 1: Photo from Unsplash.com CC-0
Slide 3: Photo by Amber Litzinger https://flic.kr/p/bEXT6H CC-BY
Slide 4: Panic by Nate Stelner https://flic.kr/p/us2aa Public Domain
Slide 5: George Lucas, taken from Wikipedia CC-BY-NC
Slide 7: © Morrison / Secker family album
Slide 8: Photo of Chris Morrison by Matt Wilson © University of Kent. Logos © of various organisations
Slide 9: Photo of Jane Secker © Jane Secker. Logos © various organisations
Slide 10: Photo by Drew Whitworth used with permission
Slide 15: Copyright the Card Game at CILIP Wales Conference © Whole Picture used with permission
Slide 17: Phenomena by Nick Ares https://flic.kr/p/6m6uYA CC-BY
Slide 25-34: Images from quiz all taken from Wikipedia and licensed under CC-BY
Slide 36: A world without copyright literacy: images from Open clipart. Risk by Brad Clinesmith:
https://flic.kr/p/aWW978 CC-BY
Slide 24: Forth Bridge by John Loach https://flic.kr/p/TTkb9P CC-BY
Slide 25: Lego police officer byMartin @pokipsie Rechsteiner https://flic.kr/p/qmMDmS CC-BY
Slide 28: Kent copyright community of practice. Photo by Chris Morrison.
Slide 29: Logos © CILIP and CILIP Information Literacy Group
Slide 30: Yoda image from Memegenerator.net
Slide 31: Photo from Unsplash.com CC-0
Slide 37: Kitchener Wants You by Alfred Leete, modified by Chris Morrison
Slide 38: A team van taken from http://www.myateamvan.com/