Workshops: Librarians at UMass offer workshops on a range of topics relating to copyright, author rights, and information law. Contact us at copyright@umass.edu to request a workshop or guest lecture in your class or department, or an individual consultation.

  • Copyright for Complete Beginners
    • March 3, 10-11am
    • March 22, 1-230pm
  • Creative Commons 101: How to Find Images, Media and More for Your Projects
  • Open Access, Peer Review and Predatory Publishing: Can You have the First Two Without the Third?
  • Open Education Initiative Grant Information Session

Guest Lectures: Laura Quilter guest lectures frequently on information law and policy, including copyright, intellectual property, privacy, telecommunications law, and First Amendment. Guest letures she has given include:

  • “Copyright and Film”
  • “Copyright and Music”
  • “Copyright and Translation”
  • “Copyright and Trademark for Animators”
  • “Copyright and Other Legal Issues for Journalists”
  • “Intellectual Property and the Economics of Innovation”
  • “Intellectual Property for Business Law”
  • “Open Source Software”
  • “Intellectual Property and 3D Printing”
  • “How to Submit Comments to FCC Rulemakings”
  • “Privacy Law in the United States and Europe”
  • “Copyright and Plagiarism”
  • “Copyright, Privacy, Patent Trolls, and Other Computer Law Issues”

Ongoing Discussion Groups

Copyright Bootcamp:

Laura Quilter is one of the organizers of the “NorthEast Copyright Crew” (NECCo), which has offered a number of regional copyright workshops. See https://websites.umass.edu/copyright/previous-workshops/ for a list of previous sessions, with links to relevant materials. No sessions are currently scheduled.

Previous Workshops

See https://websites.umass.edu/copyright/previous-workshops/ for workshops, trainings, and other educational activities from previous semesters.