Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

The home of Copyright Literacy. We publish research on the subject of copyright education or what we term 'copyright literacy'. We also promote and develop copyright games for students, librarians and academic staff and have a series of copyright publications.

We are Chris Morrison and Jane Secker and we are on a mission to make learning about copyright fun, engaging and empowering.

Chris (@cbowiemorrison) is Copyright, Licensing and Policy Manager at the University of Kent and Jane (@jsecker) is Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London.

We are both members of the Universities UK / Guild HE Copyright Working Group.

Copyright is now an inescapable aspect of learning and research when using digital technologies, and therefore awareness of it is a fundamental part of digital literacy. Rather than being a separate concept that can be considered in isolation, copyright implications arise whenever anyone creates, interacts with or shares content with others. It is therefore woven through all the key aspects of digital literacies and capabilities, with particular relevance for the ethics of sharing. This chapter from the book Digital Literacy Unpacked (Reedy & Parker, Facet 2018) identifies the relationships between copyright and digital literacy, discussing ideas of rules and risk in institutional and non-institutional contexts. In additional it summarises the author's approach to copyright education using games and other creative approaches.