[Upd-discuss] CHEW: UK based effort to overcome restrictive use of copyright in academic writing

[James Love]

This is a note about an effort established by the Copyright in Higher
Education Workgroup (CHEW), to analyse and overcome financial and
pedagogical barriers to UK university teaching and learning created by
the restrictive use of copyright in academic writing.  Their "first
campaign" is the UK Higher Education Copying Accord.   

 Jamie



Subject: Copyrights
   Date:  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:17:11 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
  From: Alan Story <a.c.story@ukc.ac.uk>
    To: love@cptech.org

James:

I thought that you might be interested in the 
following...and might want to "pass it on." 

Cheers
Alan Story
Intellectual Property
Kent Law School 
Canterbury UK

ANNOUNCEMENT - APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS
 
As many of you are aware, there are a growing number of 
problems in the access to and use of teaching materials in 
higher education (and further education) in the United 
Kingdom.  In particular, restrictive conceptions of 
copyright and the privileging of the interests of 
publishers have led to the replacement of traditional 
copyright notions of "fair dealing" with expensive and 
cumbersome user-pay turnstiles. 

To bring these issues to the attention of all members of 
the academic community and to work for reform of the 
current regime, a new group, the Copyright in Higher 
Education Workgroup (CHEW) has recently been formed. 

Our first project has been to establish a website that 
focuses on a range of copyright issues in education. This 
site includes the results of a recent survey about the 
effects of the Higher Education Copying Accord (HECA) on 
teaching and learning in UK universities and puts 
forward various analyses of HECA. CHEW's first campaign is 
directed at the reform /repeal of HECA when it expires in 
January 2001. 
 
The website's URL is:
http://www.law.warwick.ac.uk/ncle/Copyright/

We are also interested in recognising the "good practice" 
efforts of some academic journals that allow non-profit 
educational photocopying under an "open licence" system. 
The website gives examples of such journals and welcomes 
your own suggested additions.  

The site was created with the assistance of the United 
Kingdom Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE) at the 
University of Warwick with whom CHEW is affiliated.

To encourage discussion and debate over copyright issues in 
education, CHEW has also established a Mailbase discussion 
list entitled "Copyrights." The list and archives of past 
messages are accessible from the above website. You can 
also send a message to the list by e-mailing: 
copyrights@mailbase.ac.uk

The website of "Copyrights " is:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/copyrights/

Although the initial members of CHEW are UK legal 
academics, the group wants to address copyright issues in 
other disciplines and work with those individuals and 
groups interested in reform. Our main focus at present is 
on the problems that have been created for the provision of 
course (study) packs and the operation of Library short 
loan (reserve) collections.  

We are also interested in hearing from academic colleagues 
in other countries who may face their own copyright-related 
issues.

Those individuals and groups who maintain copyright-related 
websites are welcome to add a link between their own site 
and CHEW's site. We would like to be informed if you insert 
such a link?and we will reciprocate. CHEW itself can be 
contacted by e-mail at: s.l.fury@warwick.ac.uk specifying 
CHEW in the subject line. 

We welcome your comments and criticisms. And we also 
welcome new members.  

Alan Story
Kent Law School
Canterbury Kent 
For the Copyright in Higher Education Workgroup (CHEW) 


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Alan Story
Kent Law School
Eliot College
University of Kent
Canterbury Kent UK
CT2 7NS
a.c.story@ukc.ac.uk
Ph. 01227 823316
Fax 01227 827831