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
- March 8, 1-230pm
- Open Access, Peer Review and Predatory Publishing: Can You have the First Two Without the Third?
- March 7, 12-1pm
- Open Education Initiative Grant Information Session
- March 8, 4-5pm
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.