Copyright training sessions
Information on the copyright and licensing training available to staff and PGRs.
Overview
The University Library Copyright Team offers a variety of training sessions to support staff and postgraduate research students who wish to improve their knowledge of copyright and licensing.
Details of current training sessions can be found below. In addition, we can provide sessions tailored to a specific copyright topic relevant to your area. If you would like to discuss options for providing a training session for a specific school, department, or research group please contact us.
Training sessions
Bitesize copyright basics
This bitesize session gives a very quick introduction to the copyright essentials. We cover what copyright does and doesn’t protect, what is meant by public domain, ways in which you can lawfully reuse copyright works, and where to find more information and guidance.
- Tuesday 7th October 2025, 12:00-12:30 (online)
- Tuesday 11th November 2025, 12:00-12:30 (online)
- Tuesday 10th February 2026, 12:00-12:30 (online)
- Thursday 26th March 2026, 12:00-12:30 (online)
Copyright and text and data mining
This training is for all staff and PGRs who want to find out more about the legal exception for text and data mining (TDM) in UK copyright law, and how this applies when gathering and using research data.
We will look at when and how this exception can be relied upon for analysing a corpus of copyright works or web-scraping protected material. The session will look at how texts and images are protected by copyright, under what terms copying for TDM is permitted, and how database right affects TDM.
- Thursday 6th November 2025, 10:00-11:00 (online)
- Tuesday 13th January 2026, 12:00-13:00 (online)
- Thursday 19th March 2026, 12:00-13:00 (online)
- Thursday 21st May 2026, 14:00-15:00 (online)
Copyright and licensing in research and publication
This online workshop aimed at research staff, including supervisors/PGRs, will begin with a short presentation on copyright basics before moving on to look at licensing issues in research publications. The focus will be on copyright and licensing for topics including publishing and licensing of articles and long-form research outputs, how to meet licensing requirements in funder open access mandates, rights in research data, and reusing copyright figures. There will also be time to answer some of your copyright and open access publishing questions.
- Tuesday 18th November 2025, 12:00-13:00 (online)
Copyright and licensing in teaching and learning
This online workshop, aimed at all staff and PGRs with teaching responsibilities, will begin with a short presentation on copyright and licensing basics, followed by a demonstration of some open access image and resource search tools. The focus will be on copyright and licensing in teaching and learning, including sourcing and lawfully using images and other copyright materials. There will also be the opportunity to answer your copyright in teaching and learning questions.
- Session dates tbc
Staff copyright refresher training
This short training session is suitable for all staff who want a refresher on the copyright basics. We will look at the essentials of copyright, what is protected, and reuse options including fair dealing and when and how this can be relied upon. The session will also look at open licences and some example scenarios, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions around any copyright issues.
- Tuesday 2nd December 2025, 14:00-15:00 (online)
- Tuesday 24th February 2026, 10:00-11:00 (online)
Copyright misconceptions
This training is aimed at staff who have some copyright knowledge, or have completed some copyright basics training. In this session we look at common copyright myths and misconceptions we encounter, and explain how to avoid problems they can cause. Topics include fair dealing questions, what educational use really means in copyright terms, commercial vs non-commercial, the effects of open licences, and copyright and “data”.
- Thursday 23rd October 2025, 13:00-14:00 (online)
- Tuesday 27th January 2026, 12:00-13:00 (online)
- Thursday 23rd April 2026, 10:00-11:00 (online)
Copyright and open access: your thesis and beyond
This session for PGRs is run as part of the Doctoral Development Programme (DDP).
What is copyright and how does it affect you as a researcher? Sign up to this session to find out how you can reuse material fairly and legally in your writing - and how copyright protects works that you produce. Discover the possibilities of open access publishing and what your responsibilities are as a doctoral researcher to make your research available to the widest possible audience.
Session dates and times:
- Thursday 13th November 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 (in person)
- Thursday 12th February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00 (online)
- Tuesday 19th May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00 (online)
See recordings of previous sessions
Bitesize webinar: Creative Commons Licences
Creative Commons celebrated 20 years of issuing licences in 2022. This webinar will look at a brief history of the Commons and licences before looking in more detail at the licence terms and how these combine and work within existing copyright law. We will also look at what the licences do and do not allow, and see how they support the broader open access movement.
- No sessions currently available
See a recording of a previous webinar.