If you are a student or a member of staff at UCL, you can shape how UCL approaches copyright literacy.

We seek your views on a UCL Copyright Literacy Strategy.  The draft strategy outlines a vision for developing the skills and confidence of the UCL community around copyright as it applies in scholarship, research, teaching and other activities. Does the proposed strategy speak to your needs?  Are there gaps in copyright education and support that could be addressed? You may want to comment on the aims of the strategy and further suggest new resources, topics and approaches.

The strategy supports the LCCOS Strategy 2024 – 2027.

Why a UCL Copyright Literacy Strategy? 

Copyright literacy helps us understand the contexts within which creative works are produced and used, and to apply this understanding when using and creating copyrighted materials. Copyright literacy helps you use copyrighted materials creatively and confidently, understand your own rights and apply this understanding to your own activitiues, for example when writing a thesis, sharing materials with colleagues, publishing your research, posting on social media and using images.

More on copyright skills as a critical part of information literacy can be found on the Arena MicroCPD ‘Embedding copyright literacy into your teaching’ [90 seconds] and on the UCL Education Conference post ‘Getting comfortable with uncertainty’: developing students’ critical copyright literacy in the age of GenAI.

Take part in the consultation

Read the draft strategy on Microsoft Sway. You can submit your feedback using the Microsoft form at the end of the document, or you can email copyright@ucl.ac.uk if you prefer.

When viewing on Sway, you can turn on Accessibility view. This view displays a high-contrast style for easier reading, disables any animations, and supports keyboard navigation for use with screen readers. To turn on Accessibility view: (a) If you’re using a mouse or touchscreen, on the More options menu (shown as three dots on the Sway toolbar), choose Accessibility view. (b) If you’re using a screen reader, on the More options menu, when Accessibility view is selected, you hear “Displays this Sway in a high contrast design with full keyboard functionality and screen reader access to all content.”You can also create PDFs by clicking the ‘…’ menu option in the top right corner of the Sway, clicking ‘export’ and choosing PDF.

The consultation closes on 13^th December 2024.  A final version of the strategy will be made live in January 2025.  Any interim questions can be emailed to copyright@ucl.ac.uk.  

Current copyright resources

Self-paced tutorial introducing copyright, permissions and exceptions in an interactive and accessible way.

Book a training session, held on Teams or in person.

Visit the UCL copyright website for advice on various aspects of copyright.