{"id":24168,"date":"2015-04-22T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=24168"},"modified":"2015-04-23T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T13:26:54","slug":"know-your-copyrights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/04\/22\/know-your-copyrights\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your (copy)rights"},"content":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 23 marks World Book and Copyright Day. The international event was established by UNESCO in 1995 to celebrate books and authors, promote literacy, and raise awareness about copyright.\r\n\r\nAt U of T, students will be working away in the stacks with their noses, rather appropriately, buried deep in their textbooks on this day. Downstairs at Robarts, a public reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<\/i><\/a>- all 104,333 words of it - \u00a0will be taking place all day long. The U of T Libraries will also digitize a book new to the public domain based on the results of a social media contest that\u2019s ongoing throughout the week - check out the hashtag #UofTBookBattle<\/a> to cast your vote.\r\n\r\n
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The first edition of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s easy to get on board with a celebration of books - but what about copyright?\r\n\r\nCopyright at U of T has changed in the last couple of years. Previously, the university had an agreement with Access Copyright, an organization that acted as a liaison between the school and copyright holders, like authors and publishers. Fees for students were high, but copyright regulations in Canada have opened up in recent years and open access material is increasingly available. So, in early 2014, citing these reasons, the university opted out of their agreement with the group to take on copyright matters internally. The university hired on Bobby Glushko, a copyright librarian, to run what is now the University of Toronto Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office<\/a> (SCCO).\r\n\r\nThe main group of people who use this office at the university are faculty members - professors who want to include materials in their course packs, for example. But, as Glushko puts its, \u201cThe SCCO is here for everyone in the U of T community, not just faculty.\u201d Students are welcome to visit the office with any concerns.\r\n\r\n\u201cLast year, we helped over 20 grad students with questions relating to their thesis work, and its not just graduate students who he help,\u201d he says, adding, \u201cwe helped several undergraduates who had questions on assignments or publications.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe SCCO also helps students by helping professors - in the fall semester last year, for example, they worked with instructors to reduce the costs of coursepacks using open access materials and fair dealing, saving students $100,000 in coursepack costs.\r\n\r\nAs students, copyright impacts us through issues of plagiarism, citation, access to materials, and user rights.\r\n\r\n
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Good-to-know copyright lingo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nWhen you\u2019re using materials through the U of T libraries catalogue, you can check on the copyright by looking at the \u201cPermitted Uses.\u201d This will show you a list of ways you can or can\u2019t use the material - for example, you may be allowed to link to a source, but not allowed to print and distribute it.\r\n\r\nGlushko advises: \u201cGenerally with student work, for in class assignments and other course work, if it\u2019s not an academic integrity issue, it\u2019s not a copyright issue.\u201d\r\n\r\nPay attention to permissions, cite carefully, and don\u2019t plagiarize. If you\u2019re ever uncertain about permissions, talk to a librarian. You can also be in touch with the SCCO at copyright@library.utoronto.ca - or, they\u2019re on twitter<\/a> and instagram<\/a>!\r\n\r\nThere\u2019s a ton of great open content that you can find online. U of T hosts lots of fascinating material through its online special digital collections<\/a>, where you can look through manuscript fragments, a collection on the discovery of insulin, and over 200,000 public domain books digitized right here at U of T. TSpace<\/a> is an open access repository for scholarly work from U of T. It\u2019s a great resource to check out research happening on campus. Glushko recommends The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library for their \u201cAMAZING work in the public domain.\u201d You can follow them on instagram<\/a>.\r\n\r\n
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Creative Commons flowers for spring: Lysimachia quadrifolia by Agnes Chamberlain. via Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library<\/a>. Some of their special collections are available on their Flickr page<\/a>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nGiven the growing access to materials like these online, there\u2019s a lot of attention on intellectual property and copyright issues right now. More and more information is available on\u00a0the web\u00a0everyday. U of T offers you access online, through the libraries, to collections, peer-reviewed journals, movies<\/a>, databases, and full books. Be mindful of permissions, but also be sure to take advantage of the heaps of knowledge you\u2019re afforded through the university. Go to Robarts on Thursday and listen to the rousing exploits of Sherlock Holmes in the public domain - and read along on the internet archive<\/a>, if you\u2019re so inclined. The access we have to books, art, and research is certainly something worth celebrating. Happy World Book and Copyright Day, U of T!\r\n\r\nWhat are you reading, U of T (besides, of course, textbooks)? Let me know in the comments or on twitter at @lifeatuoft.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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