1. COPYRIGHTAND E-
LEARNING:
STRATEGIES FOR COMPLIANCE
Dr Jane Secker
Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor
London School of Economics and Political Science
SCURL Managing Copyright event
19th September 2013
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2. Copyright in practice in higher education
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3. Overview
• Copyright and e-learning
• Workshops and training at LSE
• Giving advice and support
• Teaching support services
• Managing the CLA Licence
• Using e-resources, content from the web, images and
multimedia
• Common queries and misconceptions
4. Copyright and e-learning
• It’s all about managing risk…
• Advice and training
• Policies / terms and conditions
• Broader staff development
• Supportive services and systems
• Building up a culture of
understanding and trust
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6. What are the key issues?
• Re-use of text and images
7. What are the key issues?
• Re-use of text and images
• Uploading content vs linking to content
8. What are the key issues?
• Re-use of text and images
• Uploading content vs linking to content
• Recording lectures and associated content
9. What are the key issues?
• Re-use of text and images
• Uploading content vs linking to content
• Recording lectures and associated content
• Understanding licensing schemes
10. What are the key issues?
• Re-use of text and images
• Uploading content vs linking to content
• Recording lectures and associated content
• Understanding licensing schemes
• Where responsibility and liability lies
11. What are the key issues?
• Re-use of text and images
• Uploading content vs linking to content
• Recording lectures and associated content
• Understanding licensing schemes
• Where responsibility and liability lies
• Extending the boundaries of the campus
12. What are the key issues?
• Re-use of text and images
• Uploading content vs linking to content
• Recording lectures and associated content
• Understanding licensing schemes
• Where responsibility and liability lies
• Extending the boundaries of the campus
•All suggests the need for enhanced
staff development and new services
13. Workshops and training at LSE
• Dedicated copyright sessions
• For academic and admin staff
• For PhD students and researchers
• For students?
• Embedding copyright training in other sessions
• Training for the VLE
• Using images in teaching
• Online course
14. Advice and support for staff
• Dealing with email, phone and face
to face queries
• One average 10-15 per month
• Guides and online support
• FAQs
• Printed guides
• Online guide to copyright
• Online guide to Copyright and E-
learning
• Quick guide to copyright and Moodle
• Referrals from Learning
Technologists and Library staff
15. Policies / terms of use
• Following the approach of social
media LSE devised terms of use for
the VLE
• Moodle 2.0 also asks about
licensing when uploading files
• In addition staff / student regulations
also specifically mention copyright
• Also Terms of Use for IT facilities
mention copyright
16. Teaching support services
• Using the CLA Licence
• Centralised services for
• Scanned readings
• Paper course packs
• Processing reading lists
• Talis Aspire / Moodle
• Review of UG courses
• Enhanced multimedia services
• Permissions service
• Recording / digitisation service
using ERA Licence
• In-house production of video
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Commons
17. Managing the CLA Licence
• LSE provide a central scanning and digitisation service
(epack service)
• All requests processed by the Library – no scanning
undertaken in departments or by staff
• In-house scanning following checks for compliance
• Process managed currently using Packtracker which
produces CLA report
• Also plan to deal with digital copy requests centrally to
ensure accuracy of record keeping
• Fast efficient service, with scans kept on secure server
and renewed annually
18. The CLA Licence – commons queries
• Need to report scanned material but
not photocopies
• Discrepancy between what can be
scanning / photocopying repertoire
• Need to link to e-journals
• Can now use digital originals but not
advertising this to staff!
• US publisher causing significant
issue and potentially high cost
• Title search errors causing concern
19. Using e-resources
• Can upload some content
into VLE under primary
licences or CLA Licence
• Linking – more sustainable
if using persistent URLs
• Linking better for students
as see resource in context
and can find related
materials
• E-books – loading onto
ipads and e-readers
remains problematic
20. Using website content
• Linking usually easier option
• Downloading / copying may
be covered by website terms
of use – check
• Links opening in new
window
• Persistence of links the
biggest issue
• Some websites now covered
by CLA Licence
• UK government websites
covered by Open
Government Licence
21. Using images and multimedia
• Generally don’t use CLA
Licence for images
• Encourage staff to use
Creative Commons
licensed material
• Sites such as JISC Digital
Media very helpful
• Maintain a list of sources of
images and multimedia
• Also produce video and
audio resources in house
22. Lecture recording
• Installed in most large LSE lecture
theatres
• Opt-in basis for lecturers but very
popular with students
• Issues of third party content being
shown and ‘copied’
• Performance rights of lecturer –
content not stored beyond
academic year
• Release forms for external
speakers also to cover third party
content Photos from LSE Library on Flickr:
no known copyright restrictions
23. MOOCs and copyright
• MOOCs (Massive open online
courses) present challenges in
terms of sourcing content
• Many do not rely on traditional
published resources but use
open content or lecturers own
material
• Use of open access readings
• Use of OERs
• Some publishers working with
MOOC platforms e.g. Coursera
Just browsing by Wilson Alfonso licensed
under Creative Commons
24. Common queries and misconceptions
• International staff
• Staff and their own publications
• Use of images in teaching
• Student work and permission
• The VLE as a ‘private network’
• You Tube and on demand TV queries
25. Light on the horizon?
• OER movement and
Creative Commons
• Open access movement
raised awareness of
copyright amongst staff
• Some movement on
educational copying
following Hargreaves?
• But technology also creates
new challenges everyday!
26. Any questions?
Email j.secker@lse.ac.uk
Twitter @jsecker
Blog: http://janesecker.wordpress.com
Secker, Jane (2010) Copyright and E-learning: a
guide for practitioners. Facet Publishing: London
Hinweis der Redaktion
I think that you should cover e-learning issues and copyright generally – the CLA licence would be one part of that. But you might also cover other aspects of copyright content inclusion on VLEs 9e.g. other strategies for third party use of content such as using items from databases under licences; direct permissions issues etc; but you might also mention the other issues of VLE content such as copyright/rights in performance issues in using audio/visual etc content). Is that clear enough.
Copyright and e-learning – primarily today I will be covering copyright and the VLE.E-learning is a broader term of related technologies. But in practice for most of us we are talking about content being added to or linked from the VLE
Discuss in pairs – what are the key issues in your own institution?
The need to report in the first instance! We manage the service and do not designate staff as being able to scan – it has to go via the Library
Linking caused problems as staff don’t realise you cant copy and paste links from subscription resourcesDOIsMention Talis Aspire making linking to resources easier.
Often not practical to use CLA Licence for images
Photo: Professor Michael Oakeshott, 1964 during the making of a BBC documentary
- LSE has a lot of international staff – US staff and fair use can be a problem–Staff believe they can do what they like with their own publications and with those they are sent by colleagues– Misconception about material on the web - free to view vs free to copy, use and adaptVLE - surely we can share material for educational use?