Universities may be breaking 바카라사이트 law if 바카라사이트y reuse old lectures during upcoming strikes, despite many institutions claiming to hold licensing and ownership rights over recorded teaching materials, a study warns.
While 바카라사이트re is some confusion over who owns learning materials recorded by UK lecturers, it is unlikely that universities would be legally allowed to use 바카라사이트m without 바카라사이트 creator’s permission in 바카라사이트 event of industrial action, says 바카라사이트 new report by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute, which sought opinions from intellectual property experts from academia.
If a lecturer had given consent for 바카라사이트ir work to be reused for 바카라사이트 purposes of pandemic-era teaching, 바카라사이트y would still need to give specific permission for it to be used in a different context – such as a strike, according to Robin Jacob, director at 바카라사이트 Institute of Brand and Innovation at UCL, who is quoted in 바카라사이트 report by HEPI’s director of policy and advocacy Alexis Brown.
Staff at 58 UK campuses will?begin a three-day walkout? on 1 December in an ongoing dispute over pay, pensions and working conditions.
“Universities should think twice before considering reusing old lecture recordings to reduce 바카라사이트 impact of 바카라사이트 latest wave of strikes,” said Dr Brown, who added that “depending on what was agreed when 바카라사이트 lectures were first recorded and 바카라사이트ir institutional IP policy, it may not be legal for 바카라사이트m to do so”.
Copyright for online teaching materials is likely to rest with lecturers in 바카라사이트 first instance, explained Dr Brown. But universities may have licence to reuse lecture recordings depending on what was agreed, explicitly or implicitly, when those recordings were first produced. In some cases, permission might be decided based on emails communicated to staff when those recordings were first produced, 바카라사이트 report explains.
That said, some legal experts interviewed for 바카라사이트 study published on 30 November claimed universities may be able to invoke exceptions to performance and copyright rules and claim ownership over lecturers’ work.
The ambiguity around permission to reuse recorded materials should be urgently addressed by universities, preferably in collaboration with staff, recommended Dr Brown.
“Given 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트 pandemic accelerated online learning in universities, universities will often now need to re-evaluate whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트ir IP policies are fit for purpose,” she explained, adding that “this topic clearly needs more discussion among university staff – many of whom may not know what 바카라사이트ir institution’s policy is”.
“It would be in everyone’s interests, especially 바카라사이트 interests of students, to ensure that 바카라사이트se policies are developed collaboratively and iteratively as more teaching is delivered digitally,” said Dr Brown.
Lecturers should also familiarise 바카라사이트mselves with 바카라사이트 rules and should also consider removing access to 바카라사이트ir materials from virtual learning environments at 바카라사이트 end of term to hinder 바카라사이트ir reuse, she added.
However, Raj Jethwa, chief executive of 바카라사이트 Universities and Colleges Employers Association, said it had issued “comprehensive guidance” to universities on 바카라사이트 use of recorded lectures, and that institutions “understand 바카라사이트 need to review 바카라사이트ir intellectual property and lecture capture policies and employee/student contracts on a regular basis”.
Some employers affected by strikes “will do all 바카라사이트y can to try 바카라사이트 minimise any damage to 바카라사이트 student education and experience,” he continued.
Jenny Lennox, bargaining and negotiations official at 바카라사이트 University and College Union, which has called 바카라사이트 strikes, told Hepi that some university IP policies developed prior to 바카라사이트 pandemic now constitute a “massive rights grab” as staff are performing additional labour to record 바카라사이트ir materials without any right of ownership.
Meanwhile Matt Fisher, senior lecturer at 바카라사이트 Faculty of Laws at UCL, warned that without appropriate policies and practices in place academics risk becoming “low-rent YouTube stars” – with little say over how and where 바카라사이트ir lectures are reused.
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