Friday, May 30th, 2014
As you may know from previous blogs, over the last 12 months we’ve hosted a number of placements of Library staff. We’ve enjoyed working with colleagues from other parts of the Library and imparting our copyright knowledge and our trainees seemed to have enjoyed finding out more about copyright and some of the challenges we […]
This week I had a query about how to go about obtaining rights to use music in a video that was intended for online release on a public access website. There are a few different ways you can go about this sort of thing… so in no particular order: It’s entirely possible to seek permission […]
Apologies to you all, I got desperately busy preparing and attending the MOOCs and Online Learning seminar presented by ALIA and CAUL in Brisbane and also the 2014 Coursera Partners’ Conference which was held at the University of London. In March, I gave a short presentation at the MOOCs and Online Learning seminar about some […]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
We’ve all gotten very used to (hopefully!) what you can and cannot use copyright wise in student lectures or tutorials. Many people are unaware of the difference in giving that sort of lecture and a public lecture. We commonly hear that a public lecture is educational, so it’s okay to just cite the content right? Nope! […]
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Congratulations to the fabulous Lawrence Lessig on receiving a lifetime achievement in the recent Webby Awards. Co-founder of Creative Commons and champion in the effort to bring awareness of copyright and all the things we can do under copyright! We are pleased to see that he’s been acknowledged for all his good work! After […]