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Copyright Conference 2023: Essential knowledge for information professionals
This year’s CILIP/Naomi Korn Associates Copyright Conference will take place in May, and bookings are open now at
www.cilip.org.uk/CopyrightConf23. Here, Naomi Korn looks at why this is a must-attend event for anyone looking to keep their understanding of copyright current. We also hear from keynote speaker Dr Smita Kheria, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Edinburgh Law School.
COPYRIGHT is underpinned by important balances which attempt to address the complex and nuanced relationship between creators’ exclusive rights and specifi c copying activities which are deemed to be “fair” to rights holders and such, support certain public interest copying activities.
Copyright law and practice is therefore essential knowledge for librarians, archivists and information professionals who are often at the coal face of brokering relation- ships between creators, rights holders and content consumers. It is particularly vital that librarians and information profession- als understand how these issues correlate with new fast-moving developments in AI and digital interconnectivity. This includes hybrid working and learning post-Covid and the likely provision of access to content to users across diff erent platforms of delivery. But despite a global user base, in 2023, the shadow of Brexit looms dark across copyright legislation in the UK, as the UK moves ever further away from EU law and opportunities provided by legislation originating from the EU, have either been lost or removed from the UK’s copyright framework. The cumulative impact of these developments have accentuated the need to become “copyright aware” and as such,
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Naomi Korn is Managing Director of Naomi Korn Associates.
the development of confi dence and skills in identifying and applying sometimes com- plex concepts into day-to-work. However, at the same time, because any changes to the legislation which are benefi cial to users are often long in the making and slow to transpose into the UK’s legislative framework, copyright laws are frequently out of pace with the rapidly changing digital spaces in which librarians and information professionals operate. Sub- sequently, how copyright law operates in practice, the challenges these present to our
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