UCL copyright advice

The UCL Library Services LCCOS copyright team offers support and training on a wide range of copyright issues to UCL students and staff.

Complete the Copyright Essentials online tutorial

Copyright resources and training opportunities

A selection of useful external online resources.
Training and help from UCL Library Services.
Copyright for PhD Students, an online booklet explaining copyright essentials: Particularly relevant for PhD and Masters students.

UCL IPR Policy

For students and staff.

Copyright in depth

Our summary of UK Copyright law, highlighting the points you may need to know.

Copyright and OpenEd@UCL

Guide for UCL students when publishing your work on OpenEd@UCL.

Contact

Email copyright@ucl.ac.uk

Training

Complete the Copyright Essentials online tutorial
Book a copyright training session
See all copyright training on offer

Copyright blog

Copyright and GenAI: new post on UCL Open Science blog.

How does copyright apply to AI-generated works?

Read our guest post in the Copyright and Open Science series.

If you have any questions on copyright, please contact copyright@ucl.ac.uk. You may also be interested in our copyright resources and training.

21st June 2024

Developing a Copyright Literacy Community at UCL

Copyright literacy – the ‘knowledge, skills and behaviours that individuals require when working with copyright content in the digital age’ (Morrison and Secker, 2015) – is an essential part of academic and professional skillsets. It is also much more than complying with licences and the law. It is about understanding how copyright came to be, what it seeks to achieve, whose interests are relevant and how it can be used as a tool to make knowledge more open and collaborative.

29th April 2024

Copyright and your research: new series on UCL Open Science blog

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8th April 2024

Wrapping up fair dealing week 2024: what next?

This Fair Dealing Week is coming to a close. This blog has clarified a few points on copyright, copyright exceptions and fair dealing:

1st March 2024

Copyright myth #4: the appeal of set percentages.

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29th February 2024

Copyright myth #3: ‘I can use materials without permission if the use is non-commercial’.

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28th February 2024

Copyright myth #2: ‘Acknowledging a source removes the need for permission’

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27th February 2024

Copyright myth #1: ‘free to access’ means ‘free to reuse’

This year we are marking Fair Dealing Week (26 February to 1 March 2024) with a series of blog posts addressing some copyright myths. Our first post starts with a simple but important message.

26th February 2024

‘Keeping it fair and honest’: how copyright exceptions can support your thesis, publications and teaching.

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22nd February 2024

How can AI help you with your systematic literature review? Reflections from a two-day seminar.

Guest post by Veronica Parisi, Training and Clinical Support team, Cruciform Hub, UCL.

29th January 2024