Rights and Readerships: A Workshop
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How can you use others' work in your scholarship without infringing copyright? What rights do you retain when you create an online class? What happens to your copyright when publishing and how might that affect your future scholarship?
New media enable unprecedented avenues for the distribution and discovery of academic work. Digital scholarship can reach communities without the resources traditionally confined to the upper echelons of the academy. For many academic authors, the possibility of reaching new kinds of readerships promises a more equitable and rewarding scholarship economy.
But author empowerment is not a givenâwe need much more than technological possibility in order to realize this promise. In order to reach new audiences, authors need rights and know-how. This workshop will focus on the current authorsâ rights landscape in the academy generally and in the U.C. Berkeley community more specifically. Our goal is to provide the skills and knowledge that will allow community authors to reach their dissemination goals.
Possible topics for discussion include:
Fair useâhow to make use of others' work in your scholarship and teaching without infringing copyright
Faculty rights in online courses
The UC Copyright Policy and the UC Open Access policy
Rights issues in collaborations and hackathons
Rights management and publishingâwhat it means to sign away your copyright
About Authors Alliance
Co-founded by four members of the U.C. Berkeley faculty, Authors Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for and empowering authors who write to be read, supported by a growing international community of members. Recent Authors Alliance initiatives include efforts to demystify and simplify publishing contracts, voicing official positions on copyright reform and litigation, and producing guides on legal issues authors are likely to encounter.
About the Workshop
The Berkeley Center for New Media is sponsoring the workshop, run by Authors Alliance co-founders Pamela Samuelson and Molly Van Houweling, intellectual property professors at Berkeley Law, and Authors Alliance executive director Michael Wolfe. Discussion will center on the questions and concerns of attendees.