Webinars: copyright and online learning

These regular webinars hosted by the Association of Learning Technology (ALT) started on Friday 20th March in response to queries largely from those in higher education related to copyright and online learning following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning. These led to the creation of the ALT Copyright and Online Learning Special Interest Group (CoOL SIG) which supports the webinars and the community. The webinars have continued on a monthly basis and this page provides a schedule of upcoming events as well as an archive of previous webinars.

The webinars are free to all and aimed at those interested in talking about copyright challenges at the current time and how we can address them. We have published a page full of resources and the original blog post that led to us starting this series on Copyright, Fair Dealing and Online Teaching in a time of Crisis. We have also got a playlist of the webinars recordings on the ALT You Tube channel.

Got an idea for a topic or speaker? Then please complete our suggestion form.

Registration is now required to join these events which will be hosted on Zoom and are listed on the ALT website.

Details of the webinars in reverse chronological order are listed below. All webinars take place from 11-12pm GMT / BST unless otherwise stated:

Upcoming Webinars
Webinar 82: Friday 19th December 2025 – Big fat copyright quiz of the year with Kathryn Drumm and Jane and Chris. Book your place!

Webinar 83: Friday 16th January 2026: Return of the Copyright Trolls. Book your place!

Webinar 84: Friday 13th February 2026: Valentine’s Special – launch of the copyright peer mentoring scheme. Book your place

Webinar 85: Friday 13th March 2026: Joint webinar with AmplifyFE

Previous Webinars

Webinar 80: Friday 24 October 2025 – The Great Escape: Coventry’s OER leap of Faith, Dal Badesha and Erica Wine, Coventry University. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from Dal and Erica

Webinar 79: Friday 18 July 2025 – Copyright and audiovisual works – where are we now? Bart Meletti, Jane Secker and Chris Morrison. Closed webinar – no recording available.

Webinar 78: Friday 13 June 2025, 3-4pm – Findings from the Copyright Anxiety Study: Jane Secker, Chris Morrison and Amanda Wakaruk. View Recording | View Slides from Jane, Chris and Amanda.

Webinar 77: 25 April 2025 – Becoming a Copyright Specialist Part V: Irene Barranco Garcia, Christine Daoutis and Kathryn Drumm. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from Irene and Christine | View Slides from Kathryn

Webinar 76: 21 March 2025 – Copyright and AI policy and guidance: a view from Academic Libraries North. Ben Catt, Andrew Johnson and Liesl Rowe. View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard Collaborate | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View slides from Ben, Andrew and Liesl

Webinar 75: 14 February 2025 – Ami Pendergrass: Rights Retention Strategies in UK Institutions. View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard Collaborate | View Ami’s Slides | View Slides from Chris and Jane

Webinar 74: 24 January 2025 – Closed webinar on Copyright and AI: the government consultation

Webinar 73: 20 December 2024 – The Big Fat Copyright Quiz of the Year! View Recording on Blackboard | View Recording on YouTube | View Slides

Webinar 72: 22 November 2024 – Highlights of Icepops with four speakers from our conference, revisiting their Icepops lightning talk or world cafe session. View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from Mayya Revzina | View Slides from Michael Duncan | View Slides from Christine Daoutis | View Slides from Liesl Rowe, Andre Buller and Thali Bento

Webinar 71: 11 October 2024: Introduction to the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) with Matt Lambert and Christy Henshaw. View Webinar 71 Slides | View Recording on Blackboard | View Recording on You Tube

Webinar 70: 31st May 2024: Third Party Copyright in Research Outputs with Clare Painter (Clare Painter Associates) Professor Tanya Aplin (Kings College, London) and Prof Emily Hudson (University of Oxford). View slides from Emily, Clare and Tanya | View Slides from Chris and Jane | View Recording in You Tube | View Recording on Blackboard

Webinar 69: 19 April 2024: Becoming a Copyright Specialist Part IV with Eugen Stoica, Liesl Rowe and Megan Kilvington. View slides from Eugen | View Slides from Liesl | View Slides from Megan | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard

Webinar 68: 8 March 2024. Copyright and the ALT Ethical Framework. Sharon Flynn and Natalie Lafferty. View slides from Chris and Jane | View Slides from Natalie and Sharon | View Recording on Blackboard Collaborate | View Recording on YouTube.

Webinar 67: 19 January 2024: Future of the copyright webinars with Sarah Hammond (University of Cambridge) View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard Collaborate | View Slides.

Webinar 66: 8 December 2023 Big Fat Copyright Quiz of the Year with Matt Voigts, IFLA and Kathryn Drumm. View Recording on YouTube | View Slides

Webinar 65: 10 November 2023: Open Textbook Network, David Beales, Brunel University and various colleagues. View Recording on YouTube | View Slides from David and colleagues | Slides from Jane and Chris

Webinar 64: 6 October 2023 Discussion on Copyright and AI: building on Alex Fenlon’s webinar 63

Webinar 63: 8 September 2023: Copyright and AI, Alex Fenlon, Birmingham University. Slides and recording to follow. View Alex’s slides | View Jane and Chris’s slides | View Recording on YouTube | View Blackboard Recording

Webinar 62: 9 June 2023: Launch of the Code of Fair Practice in Audiovisual works. View Slides from Jane, Chris and Bart | View Blackboard Recording | View Recording on YouTube

Webinar 61: 5 May 2023: Matt Voigts, ILFA Policy Advisor provides a Copyright News Special. View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Blackboard Recording | View Recording on YouTube

Webinar 60: 14 April 2023 – Becoming a copyright specialist part 3: Lisa Moore, University of Creative Arts and Tim Riley, University of Aberdeen. View Jane and Chris’s slides | View Lisa’s slides | View Tim’s Slides | View Blackboard Recording | View on YouTube

Webinar 59: 3 March 2023 – CLA Licence discussion (closed webinar).

Webinar 58: 10 February 2023 – Copyright Law and AI, Margaritha Windisch, Center for Law & Economics, ETH Zurich. View Slides from Margaritha | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard Collaborate

Webinar 57: 13 January 2023 – Jane and Chris discuss their recent chapter “Copyright Education and Information Literacy” in the IFLA publication, Navigating Copyright for Libraries. They were interviewed by Dr Luis Pereira from City, University of London. View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard | View Slides.

Webinar 56: 16 December 2022 – Christmas Special (not recorded, but a lot of fun)

Webinar 55: 2nd December 2022 – Navigating Copyright for Libraries webinar 2: guest speakers will join us including Jessica Coates, Stephen Wyber, IFLA and Professor Tom Cochrane, Queensland University of Technology. View Slides | View Blackboard Recording | View Recording on YouTube

Webinar 54: 18th November 2022 – Navigating Copyright for Libraries webinar 1: guest speakers will join us including Dr. Zoi Krokida, University of Stirling and David Meehan, O’Reilly Library, Dublin City University. View Slides | View Blackboard Recording | View Recording on You Tube.

Webinar 53: 7 October 2022 Open textbooks discussion with Lorna Campbell, University of Edinburgh and Dhara Snowden, UCL. View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Blackboard Recording | View Recording on YouTube.

Webinar 52: 23 September 2022 – Highlights of Icepops 2020 – Christine Daoutis, Nicola Avery, Ollie Brindle and Rachel Scanlon. View Recording on You Tube | View Blackboard Collaborate recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Christine and Nicola’s Slides | View Ollie’s slides | View Rachel’s slides.

Webinar 51: 1 July 2022 – Becoming a copyright specialist – Chris Slater, Wendy Lynwood and Neil Sprunt. View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard | View Slides from Chris Slater | View Slides from Wendy Lynwood | View Slides from Neil Sprunt | View Slides from Jane and Chris.

Webinar 50: 10 June 2022 – The Intellectual Property Education Framework – Lisa Redman, UK Intellectual Property Office. View recording on Blackboard | View slides | View Recording on YouTube

Webinar 49: 6 May 2022 – Copyright and accessibility, Kate Vasili, Middlesex University. Slides from Jane and Chris | Slides from Kate | Recording of session on Blackboard | Recording on You Tube

Webinar 48: 11 March 2022 – IP education: ideas, identity and impact – Roxanne Peters and Eleanor Rockett, University of the Arts London. Slides from Jane and Chris | Slides from Roxanne and Eleanor | Recording of session on Blackboard | Recording on You Tube

Webinar 47: 18 February 2022 – Preview webinar on Fair Dealing week | Slides from Jane and Chris | Recording of session on Blackboard

Webinar 46: 21 January 2022 – Confessions of a learning technologist with Evan Dickerson and Richard Beggs. View Jane and Chris’s slides | View Evan’s slides | View Richard’s Slides | View Recording on YouTube | View Recording on Blackboard |

Webinar 45: 17 December 2021 – Copyright Christmas Special

Webinar 44: 12th November 2021 – Becoming a copyright specialist. Presentations and discussions with institutional copyright specialists reflecting on their experiences and opportunities for supporting the community. View Recording | View Jane and Chris’s slides | View Slides from Hannah Pyman | View Slides from Kate Vasili | View Slides from Simon Cox

Webinar 43: 15th October 2021 – report on a survey on the Copyright and Online Learning webinars by Irene Barranco Garcia University of Greenwich/Drill Hall Library and a discussion on the future of the webinar series. View Jane and Chris’s slides | View Irene’s slides | View Recording

Webinar 42: 24th September, 11am ‘Film studies and audiovisual works’ with Jane Secker, Chris Morrison, Bart Meletti. Closed webinar. Details circulated on LIS-Copyseek.

Webinar 41: 14th September. 2-3.30pm. Joint webinar with NAG / ALT CoOL SIG: The strategic and practical implications of CDL for UK academic libraries. Dr Emily Hudson, David Prosser, RLUK, Kevin O’Donovan, LSE. This was a closed webinar for educational institutions.

Webinar 40: Friday 27th August, 11am ‘Back to school’ with updates from James Bennett, CLA and Helena Djurkovic, ERA. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from James Bennett | View Slides from Helena Djurkovic

Webinar 39: Wednesday 21st July: closed webinar on use of image online and infringement notifications – please note this is taking place from 2-3.30pm. 25th July: I Can’t Believe It’s not Icepops!

Webinar 38: 11th June: Will Cross, Peter Jaszi, Meredith Jacob, Prue Adler and Dr Carys Craig. Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use in OERs. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from US & Canadian OER Team

Webinar 37: Friday 21st May: Teresa Mackinnon, Terese Bird, Ella Mitchell. An introduction to the ALT Open Education SIG and the relationship between open practice and copyright literacy. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from Terese Bird

Webinar 36: Friday 7th May: Jessica Coates (Senior Rights Adviser for the National Library of Australia), Trish Hepworth (Director of Policy and Education, Australian Library and Information Association) Ben Rice (Copyright Law and Policy Adviser for the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee). Copyright, libraries and education in Australia during the pandemic. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris

Webinar 35: Friday 9th April: Claire Kidwell, IAML Report on Copyright and Music Scores. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from Claire Kidwell.

Webinar 34: Friday 26th March: CoOL SIG Launch. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Slides from CoOL SIG Launch

Webinar 33: Friday 12th March: Fabian Franke, Bamberg University, Germany. View Recording | View Slides from Fabian | View Slides from Jane and Chris

Webinar 32: Friday 26th February: Debbie McDonnell, British Council: Licensing and Exceptions outside the UK. View Recording | View Slides from Jane and Chris | View Debbie’s Slides

Webinar 31: Friday 12th February: Hannah Pyman, Clarissa St Yves, Kat Sundsbo, University of Essex. View Recording. View Slides by Jane and Chris. View Slides by Hannah and Clarissa.

Webinar 30: Friday 29th January: Copyright issues in Spain: Mª Asunción Esteve Pardo
Profesora Agregada, Universitat de Barcelona. View Recording. View Slides from Jane and Chris. View Slides from Asun Esteve Pardo.

Webinar 29: Friday 15th January: You can view the session recording. View/download ‘A Hundred Stories in 10 days: COVID-19 lessons for culture, copyright and learning’ slides and view/download slides from Jane and Chris.

Webinar Archive 2020

Webinar 28: Friday 18th December: Copyright Literacy Christmas Special. Quiz, Musical special, Copyright Charades and more. View Slides.

Webinar 27: Friday 11th December: Copyright and Open GLAM with Douglas McCarthy (Europeana) and Dr Andrea Wallace (University of Exeter). You can view a recording of this session and also download slides from Jane and Chris, as well as slides from Doug and Andrea.

Webinar 26: Friday 27th November: Copyright and accessibility issues with Stephen Penton, John X Kelly and Caroline Lloyd. Recording of webinar | Slides presented by Jane and Chris. Additionally slides for other presentations used in this session are include: Stephen Penton – City, University of London , Caroline Lloyd – University of Nottingham and John X Kelly – Jisc

Webinar 25: Friday 13th November: Maurizio Borghi, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management: The EnDOW Project. A recording of this session is available to view. Slides are also available from Maurizio Borghi – Digitization, orphan works and the EnDOW Community project as well as from Jane Secker and Chris Morrison

Webinar 24: Friday 23rd October: Closed webinar on audiovisual and copyright for LIS-Copyseek subscribers.

Webinar 23: Friday 9th October: For this session we were joined by Anthony Sinnott, Access & Procurement Manager at University of York, to discuss copyright, ebooks and much more. Here is a recording of the session (the recording can be downloaded by following the link provided and using the menu option on the left hand side), view slides from Jane and Chris and view slides from Anthony Sinnott.

Webinar 22: Friday 25th September: Recording of the session | view slides from Jane and Chris|View slides from Jane Secker and Simon Sumner on the Online Teaching Policy at City and slides from Neil McCormick and Lorna Campbell on the University of Edinburgh Virtual Classroom Policy.

Webinar 21: Friday 18th September: closed webinar about copyright and film education

Webinar 20: Friday 11th September: Recording of the session | view slides from Jane and Chris and view slides from Sam Tillett on the British Library On Demand September Service Update.

Webinar 19: Friday 21st August: Recording of the session | Slides from JS and CM and view slides from James Bennett on Amendments to CLA HE Licence until July 2021.

Webinar 18: Friday 14th August: closed webinar on film studies and copyright

Webinar 17: Friday 31st July: a closed webinar was held on film studies and copyright. See LIS-Copyseek for further details of this event.

Webinar 16: Friday 17th July: Launch of the University of Kent Copyright Literacy Strategy: Recording 1 | Recording 2 (final 5 mins) | Slides from JS / CM including Kent Copyright Literacy Strategy

Webinar 15: Friday 10th July: Recording | Slides from JS / CM and view slides from Printed Music Licensing Ltd (PMLL) on the new HE printed music licence. Webinar 11: Friday 5th June 2020: Recording | Slides from JS / CM | Slides from Emily Hudson and Paul Wragg

Webinar 14: Friday 26th June 2020: Recording | Slides from JS / CM | Slides with update from CLA

Webinar 13: Friday 19th June 2020: Closed webinar

Webinar 12: Friday 12th June 2020: Copyright and accessibility with Alistair McNaught, Elizabeth Charles and Ben Watson. Recording | Slides from JS / CM | Slides from Alistair McNaught

Webinar 10: Friday 29th May 2020: Recording | Slides from JS / CM / Slides from Learning on Screen

Webinar 9: Friday 22nd May 2020: Recording | Slides from JS / CM | Slides from Brigitte Vezina Brigitte Vezina (Creative Commons)

Webinar 8: Friday 15th May 2020: This webinar was a closed session for the LIS-Copyseek community

Webinar 7: Friday 1st May 2020: Recording | view slides from Jane and Chris, view slides on Preempting Pandemic Pandemonium with Ruth Mallalieu and U.S. Copyright Implications in COVID-19 World with Kyle Courtney.

Webinar 6: Friday 24th April 2020: This webinar was a closed session for the LIS-Copyseek community

Webinar 5: Friday 17th April 2020: Recording | Slides

Webinar 4: Thursday 9th April 2020: Recording | Slides from JS/ CM | Slides from James Bennett, CLA

Webinar 3: Friday 3rd April 2020: Recording | Slides

Webinar 2: Friday 27th March 2020: Recording | Slides

Webinar 1: Friday 20th March 2020: Recording | Slides

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