Copyright training sessions
Information on the copyright and licensing training available to staff and PGRs.
Overview
The University Library Copyright Team offers a variety of training sessions to support staff and postgraduate research students who wish to improve their knowledge of copyright and licensing.
Details of current training sessions can be found below. In addition, we can provide sessions tailored to a specific copyright topic relevant to your area. If you would like to discuss options for providing a training session for a specific school, department, or research group please contact us.
Training sessions
Copyright and text and data mining
This training is for all staff and PGRs who want to find out more about the legal exception for text and data mining (TDM) in UK copyright law, and how this applies when gathering and using research data.
We will look at when and how this exception can be relied upon for analysing copyright works or web-scraping protected material. The session will look at how texts and images are protected by copyright, under what terms copying for TDM is permitted, and how database right affects TDM.
We will also give a quick overview of the TDM situation in the EU and USA.
- Thursday 24th October 2024, 11:00-12:00 (online)
Copyright and licensing in research and publication
This online workshop aimed at research staff, including supervisors/PGRs, will begin with a short presentation on copyright basics before moving on to look at licensing issues in research publications. The focus will be on copyright and licensing for topics including publishing and licensing of articles and long-form research outputs, how to meet licensing requirements in funder open access mandates, rights in research data, and reusing copyright figures. There will be an opportunity to pose questions ahead of the event, which we will answer during the session, and also to ask follow-up questions (time permitting).
- Tuesday 12th November 2024, 12:00-13:00 (online)
- Tuesday 21st January 2025, 12:00-13:00 (online)
- Thursday 24th April 2025, 12:00-13:00 (online)
Copyright and licensing in teaching and learning
This online workshop, aimed at all staff and PGRs with teaching responsibilities, will begin with a short presentation on copyright and licensing basics before moving on to answer questions. The focus will be on copyright and licensing in teaching and learning, including sourcing and lawfully using images and other copyright materials. There will be an opportunity to pose questions ahead of the event, which we will answer during the session, and also to ask follow-up questions on the day (time permitting).
- Thursday 28th November 2024, 12:00-13:00 (online)
- Wednesday 5th March 2025, 14:00-15:00 (online)
- Thursday 22nd May 2025, 11:00-12:00 (online)
Staff copyright refresher training
This short training session is suitable for all staff who want a refresher on the copyright basics. We will look at fair dealing for permitted use and when and how this can be relied upon. The session will also look at open licences, and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions around copyright issues you have encountered in your teaching or research activities.
- Thursday 12th December 2024, 10:00-11:00 (in person)
Copyright and open access: your thesis and beyond
This session for PGRs is run as part of the Doctoral Development Programme (DDP).
What is copyright and how does it affect you as a researcher? Sign up to this session to find out how you can reuse material fairly and legally in your writing - and how copyright protects works that you produce. Discover the possibilities of open access publishing and what your responsibilities are as a doctoral researcher to make your research available to the widest possible audience.
Session dates and times:
- Thursday 7 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (in person)
- Tuesday 25 February 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 (online)
- Thursday 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (online)
Bitesize webinar: Creative Commons Licences
Creative Commons celebrated 20 years of issuing licences in 2022. This webinar will look at a brief history of the Commons and licences before looking in more detail at the licence terms and how these combine and work within existing copyright law. We will also look at what the licences do and do not allow, and see how they support the broader open access movement.
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