1.
COVID AND THE COPYRIGHT
LITERACY COMMUNITY OF
PRACTICE
DR JANE SECKER, CITY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
CHRIS MORRISON, UNIVERSITY OF KENT
AMANDA WAKARUK AND CELINE GAREAU-BRENNAN,
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
LILAC 2022, Manchester Metropolitan University - 11-13 April 2022

2.
COPYRIGHTLITERACY.ORG

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.
PLAYFUL APPROACHES TO COPYRIGHT
https://copyrightliteracy.o
rg/resources/copyright-
the-card-game/
https://copyrightliteracy
.org/resources/the-
publishing-trap/
https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/icepops-international-
copyright-literacy-event-with-playful-opportunities-for-practitioners-and-
scholars/

5.
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/

6.
WEEKLY WEBINARS
https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/webinars-copyright-and-online-
learning/

7.
COPYRIGHT CRISIS WEBINARS IN NUMBERS
48 60
1041
4 649
941
Webinars since
March 2020
Participants on
average at each
webinar
Page views on
copyrighliteracy.org
webinar page since
March 2020
Number of posts on LIS-Copyseek
from March-December 2020
LIS-Copyseek membership
(up from 592)

8.
GUEST PRESENTATIONS
Brigitte Vezina
Creative Commons
Kyle K Courtney
Harvard University
Dr Emily Hudson
King’s College London
Dr Carys Craig,
Osgoode Hall Law School &
Bob Tarantino, Dentons LLP

9.
FILM AND AUDIOVISUAL
WORKS
Photo by Noom Peerapong on Unsplash

10.
EBOOK LICENSING
https://academicebookinvestigation.org/

11.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
PRACTICES

12.
ALT SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUP
https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-groups/copyright-and-online-learning-sig

13.
“Warm and Fuzzy”
“Worried, anxious”
“Like the receiver
(and thrower) of
a hot potato”
“Confused, cautious,
faintly nauseous!”
“Frustrated, confused.
Can I risk it? Can my
organisation risk it?”
LIBRARIANS’ EXPERIENCES OF COPYRIGHT

14.
PHENOMENOGRAPHY
Category 4:
Copyright is an
opportunity for
negotiation,
collaboration and
co-construction of
understanding
Category 1:
Copyright is a problem
Bridging the gap
Category 2:
Copyright is complicated and shifting
Category 3:
Copyright is a known entity
requiring coherent messages

15.
SHARE YOUR
EXPERIENCES OF
COPYRIGHT DURING
THE PANDEMIC
https://tinyurl.com/5h4zpnsv

16.
COPYRIGHT ANXIETY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV4qm2hiF_0

17.
WORLD CAFÉ DISCUSSIONS
What copyright
professional
development would you
like to see?
How have you
incorporated copyright
into your own IL
teaching
What resources would
be helpful to support
copyright literacy – for
you and for your users?
What strategies have
you / your institution
adopted to deal with
copyright issues?
What relevance does
the Copyright Anxiety
scale have to your
practice?
What chilling effects
have you noted related
to copyright anxiety?

18.
WRAP AND SUMMARY

19.
FURTHER READING
Association for Learning Technology (ALT) (2021) Copyright and Online Learning
Special Interest Group. Available at: https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-
groups/copyright-and-online-learning-sig
Craig, C. J. and Tarantino, B, 'An Hundred Stories in Ten Days': COVID-19 Lessons for
Culture, Learning, and Copyright Law (August 5, 2020). Osgoode Hall Law Journal,
Forthcoming, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper , Available at
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3691294
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 & 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
Wakaruk, A., Gareau-Brennan, C., & Pietrosanu, M. (2021). Introducing the Copyright
Anxiety Scale. Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship, 5(1), p13.
https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v5i1.15212
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