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Happy New Year and welcome to the new term at UCL!
2025 already promises to be exciting in terms of copyright. For one thing, on the first of January many new literary, artistic and musical works entered the public domain (i.e. copyright expired, making it possible to reuse these works without permission).
If you are a student or a member of staff at UCL, you can shape how UCL approaches copyright literacy.
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.
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.
This Fair Dealing Week is coming to a close. This blog has clarified a few points on copyright, copyright exceptions and fair dealing:
