Presentation given at LILAC 2017 based on research carried out by Jane Secker and Chris Morrison on librarians' experiences of copyright in their professional lives.

1. COPYRIGHT LITERACY:
FINDINGS FROM A
PHENOMENOGRAPHIC STUDY
@UKCopyrightLit https://copyrightliteracy.org
@cbowiemorrison
c.morrison@kent.ac.uk
LILAC Conference 2017
Jane Secker,
LSE / City University
of London
Chris Morrison,
University of Kent
@jsecker

2. HOW DOES COPYRIGHT
MAKE YOU FEEL?

3. PREVIOUSLY
AT LILAC…

4. THE UK COPYRIGHT
LITERACY SURVEY
Survey was undertaken in 10
additional countries (around
world)
Undertaken in December 2014
Responses from over 600
professionals

5. OUR SURVEY SAID….
UK compared
favourably to other
countries in terms of
copyright literacy
57% of UK librarians
moderately or
extremely confident
about copyright
matters
76% thought having
a copyright policy is
important and 63%
have one
64% of institutions
had a copyright
officer (higher in HE)
Copyright was a
source of anxiety
and professional
development
needed

6. UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT
EXPERIENCES
Gathering
additional
qualitative data
Three group
interviews with
academic librarians
Exploring variations
in the way
copyright is
experienced
Implications for
copyright education
and institutional
strategies

7. PHENOMENOGRAPHY
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8. PHENOMENOGRAPHY
• A qualitative research method from education
used increasingly in information literacy
research
• Based on Marton’s Variation theory as a way of
underpinning learning
• Asks open questions designed to ask what
people do not why
• Presents categories of description in an
outcome space
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9. HOW DOES COPYRIGHT MAKE
YOU FEEL?

10. COPYRIGHT AS AN
EXPERIENCE
Category 4:
Copyright is an
opportunity for
negotiation,
collaboration
and co-
construction of
understanding
Category 1:
Copyright is a problem
Category 2:
Copyright is complicated
and shifting
Category 3:
Copyright is a known
entity requiring
coherent messages

11. CATEGORY 1 & 2
Category 1: Copyright is seen as a
problem and avoided
Category 2: Copyright is seen as
complicated and passed on to
specialists

12. CATEGORY 3 & 4
Category 3: Copyright is seen as a
knowable entity requiring coherent
messages
Category 4: Copyright is an opportunity
for negotiation, collaboration and co-
construction of understanding

13. COPYRIGHT AS AN
EXPERIENCE
Category 4:
Copyright is an
opportunity for
negotiation,
collaboration
and co-
construction of
understanding
Category 1:
Copyright is a problem
Category 2:
Copyright is complicated
and shifting
Category 3:
Copyright is a known
entity requiring
coherent messages

14. DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION
• The individual’s level of knowledge
• Status / grade of librarian
• Beliefs about the higher purpose of
libraries / librarians
• Their ideology towards the value and
purpose of copyright
• The audience
• The context of the interaction

15. RULES VS RISK

16. RULES VS RISK
Everyone stand up – sit down if you’ve never done the following:
• Copy and pasted images off the internet for use in a
conference presentation
• Copy and pasted images off the internet for use in a
conference presentation which is being recorded and going
online
• Used a YouTube clip in teaching that was from a questionable
source (and therefore might be infringing)
• Shared an article with a colleague on Dropbox for research
purposes
• Used SciHub or similar ‘unofficial’ academic filesharing site

17. SO WHAT ARE WE
GOING TO DO?
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18. RETHINKING COPYRIGHT
EDUCATION FOR LIBRARIANS
• Bridging the gap between a one day course and a PG
Diploma in copyright law
• Focusing on what librarians need to know about copyright
• Focusing on their role a copyright educators

19. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

20. Copyright the Card game
downloaded over 2,500
times, international versions
in development
PLAYING WITH COPYRIGHT
https://copyrightliteracy.org/abo
ut-2/copyright-the-card-game/
The Publishing TrapUS version of copyright card game
Copyright the Card Game NAG 2017

21. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT
LITERACY
August 2017 – IFLA Models for
Copyright Education in
Information Literacy Programs

22. FURTHER READING
Morrison, C and Secker J. (2015) Copyright Literacy in the UK: a survey of
librarians and other cultural heritage sector professionals. Library and Information
Research. 39 (121)
http://www.lirgjournal.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/article/view/675
Morrison, C and Secker, J (2016) Exceptions for libraries. Copyrightuser.org.
Available online.
Morrison, C and Secker, J. (2016) A Guide to Copyright. Association of University
Administrators.
Rios-Amaya, Juliana, Secker, Jane and Morrison, Chris (2016) Lecture recording in
higher education: risky business or evolving open practice. LSE / University of
Kent, London, UK. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68275/
Secker, J and Morrison, C. (2016) Copyright and E-learning: a guide for
practitioners. Facet publishing: London. Chapter 6: Copyright education and
training available online.
Todorova, T., Trencheva, T., Kurbanoğlu, S., Dogan G., & Horvat, A. (2014) A
Multinational Study on Copyright Literacy Competencies of LIS Professionals.
Presentation given at 2nd European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) held
in Dubrovnik. October 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2015 from
http://ecil2014.ilconf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Todorova.pdf
https://copyrightliteracy.org @UKCopyrightLit

23. CREDITS
Slide 2, 5, 6, 8, 9: Open Clipart (Openclipart.com)
Slide 3: Photo by Claire McAvinia taken at LILAC 2016
Slide 13: Logos from CILIP and Information Literacy Group
Slide 14, 5, 16 & 18 by Jane Secker / Chris Morrison licensed
under CC-BY. Logos copyright of IFLA, ECIL and LILAC