The best thing about Webinar 85 was Lyra the cat joined us for the session - she could be looking for a copyright mentor perhaps? Thanks to @littlebutfierce.bsky.social and Irene for coordinating this new scheme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-r...

CoOLSIG Webinar 85: Launch of the Copyright Mentoring Scheme

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Do you work in Copyright in libraries? Got lots of experience or need more help? We are launching a Copyright Mentoring Scheme next week at the @altcoolsig.bsky.social webinar on 12 June at 11am BST: copyrightliteracy.org/2026/06/03/w...

Webinar 85 – Launch of the Copyright Mentoring Scheme Rescheduled

In this month’s webinar, members of the ALT CoOL SIG will formally launch their new peer mentoring scheme on Friday 12th June, following the postponement of this event from February. Please r…

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This morning I am reminded of the Copyright Waffle episode with @doctorow.pluralistic.net as a friend discovers the word 'enshitification for the first time: soundcloud.com/user-2432741...

Copyright Waffle Episode 21 Cory Doctorow

Jane and Chris (copyrightliteracy.org) speak to science fiction author, journalist, digital rights activist and copyright legend Cory Doctorow. We hear about his introduction to the copyright debates

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One for @joparker.bsky.social

National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 3mo ago

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Lunchtime snooze in my garden! Bliss apart from the sound of the wind in the trees

So delighted to be able to respond to the person at my gym who asked 'where can I get one of those copyright water bottles from?' www.tshirtstudio.com/marketplace/...

Tagging @cbowiemorrison.bsky.social and @copyrightliteracy.bsky.social

Dr Jane Secker@jsecker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Like a band who love to play their greatest hits, we love playing Copyright the Card Game! This time with staff at DCMS at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk no less

Like a band who love to play their greatest hits, we love playing Copyright the Card Game! This time with staff at DCMS at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk no less

Taking my favourite water bottle with me

Heading to Oxford to play Copyright the Card Game tomorrow with some civil servants - we've created some AI related scenarios now (of course we have)

Tonight I am looking forward to a concert by the Marsh Family and I am reminded of the Copyright Waffle interview we did with Ben Marsh: copyrightliteracy.org/2021/03/08/c...

Copyright Waffling with Dr Ben Marsh (of the Marsh Family)

Waffling about copyright with Ben Marsh Last week I will confess to being extremely over-excited and a little star struck as we recorded our 15th Copyright Waffle podcast, this time with Dr Ben Mar…

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Read this, the problems are real and have a huge impact on our lives. As someone who was until recently in severe pain and put on a 9 month waiting list, I am beyond angry and pleased to hear something will be done: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Streeting relaunches women’s health strategy to tackle ‘medical misogyny’

Health secretary says NHS is ‘failing women’ and pledges to end ‘gaslighting’ by doctors

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A short write up on the panel we ran at #lilac26 on Monday on teaching copyright as part of information literacy - it's not legal advice... but is it IL? copyrightliteracy.org/2026/03/31/c...

Copyright literacy goes to LILAC in Sheffield

From L-R: Jane Secker, Chris Morrison, Amanda Wakaruk and Ami Pendergrass Jane writes: We’ve been in Sheffield this week for LILAC 2026. LILAC is the UK’s information literacy conferenc…

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Two sessions at #lilac26 talking about crafting make me wonder if this is the time to make an information literacy quilt, where we ask people to contribute a square, similar to the FemEdTech quilt a few years ago: www.oeglobal.org/2020/04/03/o... anyone keen to discuss?

OER20: FemEdTech Quilt of Care and Justice

FemEdTech launched a collaborative project in 2019 to create a Quilt of Care and Justice to be displayed at the OER20 Conference in April 2020.In response to the call for participation, OEG’s Executiv...

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The winners of @infolitgroup.bsky.social & @ucl.ac.uk Department of Information Studies Information Literacy Award 2026 are Siobhan Corrin @slaintesiobhan.bsky.social & Katie Roper from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust #LILAC26

Attending the Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Education this evening at St Jame's Palace..what a treat with @julievoce.bsky.social and @puiyin.bsky.social

Today we launched a new episode of the Copyright Waffle podcast with the RT. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob - our most distinguished guest copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/04/c...

Copyright waffling with Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob

We are delighted to announce the launch of a brand new episode of the Copyright Waffle podcast, recorded at UCL School of Laws in January 2025. We were honoured to be joined by the Rt. Hon. Profess…

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Great to see our research on the @authorsalliance.bsky.social blog as I feel I've spent my career trying to help people understand why copyright matters and why they should not fear it!

Authors Alliance@authorsalliance.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How confident are authors about their rights related to copyright? Is the fear of navigating copyright preventing non-infringing ‘user’ activities? How can we mitigate the damage caused by copyright anxiety and chill? A guest post by @awakaruk.bsky.social, @jsecker.bsky.social, and Chris Morrison:

Thanks to everyone who attended or presented at #icepops25 - Manchester did us proud and we'll be sharing some photos and the slides from the event very soon..in the meantime, a few highlights....

It's the day of #icepops25 and the sun is shining in Manchester and everything is yellow

Still time to book a place at this autumn's copyright education conference, Icepops 2025. Find out more and book your place: copyrightliteracy.org/icepops-2025...

Icepops 2025: draft programme

Tuesday 9th September 11-12pm Private view of the John Rylands Library 12-1.15pm Registration and lunch available 1.15-1.30pm Welcome and introduction from co-Chairs, Chris Morrison and Jane Secker…

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Very excited to get another Copyright Waffle podcast out, Episode 28 with Monica Westin is a bit of a trailer for #icepops2025 soundcloud.com/user-2432741... #copyright

Copyright Waffle Episode 28 with Monica Westin

Chris and Jane (copyrightliteracy.org) talk to upcoming Icepops keynote Monica Westin about her journey from library school, through to Google, Manchester Metropolitan University and now to Cambridge

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Looking forward to tomorrow's Copyright and Online Learning webinar on audiovisual content - if you've not signed up, still time: copyrightliteracy.org/2025/07/01/c...

Copyright and audiovisual works: where are we now?

On Friday 18th July at 11am-12pm BST we will be running our 79th webinar. This session will be a closed session for those in the education community to discuss where we are with copyright issues re…

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Copying the worst culture war moves from the USA, Kent County Council bans trans books in children’s library. 📚📜 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section

KCC says the move came after a "concerned member of the public" contacted them.

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someone made a petition and im spreading it around petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Call for children's trans books to be put back in Kent libraries child sections

Protect these books under the Equality Act and protecting literature for education. Reach out to KCC about this harmful issue. Keep these age-appropriate trans books in children's sections.

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Earlier today my line full of copyright literacy t-shirts after a busy few weeks at conferences

Tom Lowe opening keynote at Learning at City St George's nails it - this is what I was also saying yesterday about GenAI and the impact on HE @citystgeorges.bsky.social

Read up more on @creativecommons.bsky.social Signal Preferences here - a new social pact for how those who share data and AI companies can interact: creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/i...

Great to catch up with some folks at the #cilipconf25 but then major travel issues getting home so pretty exhausted and wishing I'd stayed longer!

Great to be part of this panel this morning at the #cilipconf25 I'm sorry to be dashing off after lunch today but we have our learning and teaching conference at work!

CILIP@cilip.bsky.social · last yr.

AI & Copyright Regulatory debate with @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social, Seb Cuttill, @jsecker.bsky.social & Naomi Korn covering: 🔸Big Tech 🔸Unethical use of AI 🔸Craic - Creative Rights in AI Coalition 🔸Hallucination 🔸Misinformation 🔸Biased content How can we trust anything we see? #CILIPConf25