Presentation given at the Westminster Media Forum on the Future of the UK's Copyright Framework on 16th July 2020

1. COPYRIGHT AND THE
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
DR JANE SECKER, CITY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
CHRIS MORRISON, UNIVERSITY OF KENT
WESTMINSTER MEDIA FORUM: THE FUTURE OF THE
UK’S COPYRIGHT FRAMEWORK
16 JULY 2020

2. COPYRIGHT AND ONLINE
LEARNING

3. 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

4. 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/

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

6. COPYRIGHT
EXCEPTIONS
www.copyrightcardgame.com

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

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

9. EBOOK LICENSING
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

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

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

12. https://blogs.city.ac.uk/dilop/

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

14. EDUCATION AND
COPYRIGHT
“…Is it not, then, time for the university sector to
move even more aggressively towards open
access and other in-house publishing models, so
that we have greater control over our own destiny
and can reap the benefits ourselves?”
(Hudson & Wragg, 2020)

15. EDUCATION AND
COPYRIGHT
“Copyright law remains complex, and an area of
uncertainty where specific guidance about what is
‘fair’ is needed. Academics need to balance their
desire to have their work recognised and formally
published, with the greater requirement to have it
openly available to all students… This means at
both the individual and institutional level more
copyright literacy is required to support the brave
new world of online learning.”
(Morrison & Secker, 2020)

16. CREDITS
All content is © Chris Morrison and Jane Secker CC BY with
the exception of:
• Slide 2 - © Facet Publishing
• Slides 5-6 – 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 9 - image from Unsplash
• Slide 10 – © Times Higher Education
• Slide 12 - © City, University of London
• Slide 13 - © University of Kent, CC BY

17. 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