“The University of British Columbia and its faculty, staff and students are creators of various forms of intellectual property, as well as consumers of intellectual property. As creators, we rely on the protections offered by intellectual property laws to ensure that our work product is protected from improper use. As consumers of intellectual property, we are legally (and morally) obligated to respect the intellectual property rights of others, just as we expect others to respect our intellectual property rights…One intellectual property right that is very important to UBC faculty, staff and students is copyright.”
Coming soon! The blockbuster summer of Copyright Education Series’ Workshops you were waiting for starts next week.
Six free Library workshops will be presented by the Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office and will focus on several key themes to help the UBC community find answers to their copyright questions and more!
Reserve your spot today!
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Copyright for Authors and Creators workshop
Just finished your research project/report and looking to publish it?
Want to make sure your work has the copyright protection you need?
Register here
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Copyright for the Classroom workshop
Have questions about screening films in class? Want to distribute readings
to your students? Want to use someone else’s images in your online course?
pages?
Register here
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Copyright and Conference Presentations
Curious about using other people’s figures in your conference presentations?
Wondering if presenting a paper at a conference counts as prior publication?
A conference organizer looking for an overview of copyright considerations?
Register here
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Navigating Copyright in the Digital Environment workshop
Unsure about what you can post on a UBC departmental website, personal blog,
shared wiki space, or social media platform? Learn what to keep in mind when
using other people’s copyrighted work on publicly available websites.
Register here
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Copyright and Ethics in Scholarly Publishing
Have questions about plagiarism and academic integrity? What about “self-plagiarism”
and “gift authorship”? Find out what you need to know to get your work out there
ethically while preserving your own rights to it.
Register here
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Author Rights, Funding Mandates, and Open Access Publishing
Curious about managing copyright in academic publishing? Explore funder open access
policies and the different options available for open access publishing.
Register here
Above image is courtesy of Pixabay and partial excerpt in italics is courtesy of UBC’s Copyright at UBC website