All of us have experienced that feeling that we’re doomed when we first start learning about copyright. And if you asked us about it in March 2020, you’d get a response as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. Sometimes it seems like the support of our colleagues is our only hope. And across the years, a range of colleagues have shared their stories of becoming more powerful than you can possibly imagine in the realm of copyright.
Megan Kilvington, Liesl Rowe and Eugen Stoica will be sharing their stories in our next webinar. Join us at 11:00 on April 19th 2024 for Becoming a Copyright Specialist Part IV: A New Hope. These ARE the copyright specialists you are looking for.
Liesl Rowe is the Senior Digital Library Advisor at Leeds Beckett University, with a prior background in acquisitions at other HE institutions. She is responsible for the digitisation and copyright clearance services, offering advice to staff and students on any copyright queries which might arise. She also works closely alongside LBU’s accessibility team, providing alternative texts which meet the access needs of our students. Liesl has written a guide to copyright and AI for staff and students, not to mention speaking on the subject at staff conferences and helping formulate library AI policy. Where it comes to AI and copyright, she’s got it where it counts. Outside of work, when not keeping up with the latest AI copyright cases, Liesl can be found trying to complete all of Yorkshire’s parkrun events or improving her sword-fighting skills as a keen foilist. She is on BlueSky at littlebutfierce.bsky.social
Megan Kilvington is the Copyright, Licensing and Research Librarian at York St John University and is currently nearing the end of the training period. Before working in libraries, Megan has a background in museums and has worked in different organisations around York and Leeds.
Eugen Stoica started working with the University of Edinburgh in 2007 as a Library RAE Officer, an experience that he repeated for the 2014 REF exercise.
As a member of the Library, he participated to the development of the institutional repository which now has become Pure @ Edinburgh and become an ardent supporter of open access. After contributing to the 2014 REF, he joined the Copyright Enquiry Group – a service that was more in line with his legal background (LLB in Juridical Sciences & LLM in Private Law from the University of Bucharest and LLM in IPR with the University of Edinburgh). Genuinely interested in intellectual property rights and legal matters in general, he provides advice and training on copyright, open access, Creative Commons licences, and publishing contracts. He is also the Library’s FOI practitioner.
A man of few words, he’s an amateur photographer, enjoys travelling and reading history. Now, however, he’s slightly obsessed with the acoustics of Hagia Sofia (Istanbul) listening to byzantine chants to hear the music as it would have originally sounded hundreds of years ago.
As ever, you can join the webinar through Blackboard Collaborate. There’s no need to register in advance because Blackboard Collaborate is more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
And if you can’t make it on the day, the recording will be available on the ALT YouTube channel along with the complete back catalogue of webinar recordings that are so full of information vital to the survival of copyright knowledge, maybe you’ll feel you are closer to saying to yourself, “Now I am the master.”
*Extra brownie points to you for every quote from Star Wars IV you can spot.
**Extra brownie points to us for not joking about it being webinar 69.
Copyright Literacy 