Chris and Jane talk to copyright activist and former MEP Julia Reda about her copyright history, how she got involved in copyright reform as  a member of the European parliament, her research at the Berkman Klein Center Harvard, her copyright heroes and of course her favourite cake. Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Space Oddity by Chris Hadfield - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari - https://www.ynharari.com/book/21-lessons-book/
Kluwer Copyright Blog - http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/
Communia - https://www.communia-association.org/

Copyright Waffle - Episode 18 Julia Reda

Chris Morrison and Jane Secker (copyrightliteracy.org) speak to intellectual property expert Prof Asuncion Esteve Pardo from the University of Barcelona about her copyright history, her work in open access and share some musical banter and discussions about cake.

Asun gives us some of the background to her successful January 2022 seminar at Queen Mary University which you can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnF_bM3OYFw. She also tells us about her copyright heroes who include Prof Artur-Axel Wandtke (https://wandtke.rewi.hu-berlin.de/), Prof Gerhard Schricker (https://www.ip.mpg.de/en/persons/prof-dr-dr-hc-mult-gerhard-schricker.html) and Prof Adolf Deitz (https://www.ip.mpg.de/en/persons/dietz-adolf.html)

Copyright Waffle Episode 19 With Asun Esteve

Jane and Chris talk to leading Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn at his archive about the Beatles introduction to copyright and the ways in which they changed the music industry in the 1960s.

Mark (https://www.marklewisohn.net/) is the author of multiple best selling books on the Beatles, the most recent of which is 2013's Tune In, the first volume in the three part definitive history of the band.

Mark generously gave us the benefit of his time and expertise and guided us through some of the copyright infringement cases associated with the Beatles' music as well as their approach to parody requests.

This is part 1 of two podcasts. Part 2 features a tour of Mark's archive and more on his research process and his relationship with libraries and archives.

Copyright Waffle Episode 20 With Mark Lewisohn Part 1

Jane and Chris (copyrightliteracy.org) speak to science fiction author, journalist, digital rights activist and copyright legend Cory Doctorow.

We hear about his introduction to the copyright debates, his conversion to openness, the problems with the modern copyright regime and his latest book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' written with Rebecca Giblin. We also get his response to a song commemorating our conversation which appears to be by Kraftwerk.

Here are links to the things Cory mentions in the podcast:

Cory on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

Cory's blog https://pluralistic.net/

Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/

Cult of the Dead Cow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

Walled Culture podcast with Cory Doctorow (Part 1) - https://walledculture.org/interview-cory-doctorow-part-1-newspapers-big-tech-link-tax-drm-and-right-to-repair/
Part 2 https://walledculture.org/interview-cory-doctorow-part-2-new-publishing-models-for-creators-amazon-as-a-frenemy-and-the-internet-archive-court-case/

The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

Chokepoint Capitalism - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

Pixsy and copyright trolling https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252488167/Automated-image-recognition-How-using-free-photos-on-the-internet-can-lead-to-lawsuits-and-fines

Cory's open letter to Pixsy CEO
https://doctorow.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats-5dfc54558f2c

Cory's favourite cake
https://www.wholesomeyum.com/recipes/low-carb-keto-sugar-free-carrot-cake-recipe/

Glossary:

Orthogonal https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthogonal

Barratry https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barratry

Copyright Waffle Episode 21 Cory Doctorow

In this episode our guest, Drew Whitworth (University of Manchester), chats to Josh Rodda about the remote island of Saint Helena. Perhaps best known as the venue for Napoleon's exile, Saint Helena has a deeper history of commercial governance and scientific research, and the arrival of high-speed internet is about to have lasting effects on its consumption and production of information. Drew has been conducting research into the island's current information literacy practices, and into the inhabitants' preparations (and expectations) for the coming acceleration of communications technology.

Episode 5: Broadband on Saint Helena (with Drew Whitworth)

Jane and Chris talk to Richard Ovenden OBE: Bodley's 25th librarian (and Chris's ultimate boss) about leading one of the world's greatest research libraries, his best selling book 'Burning the Books' and the copyright implications of preserving knowledge in the 21st century.

Photo credit: John Cairns

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

Meet Bodley's Librarian: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/libraries/bodleys-librarian
Burning the Books Radio 4 serialisation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m4pm
Tolkein at the Bodleian: https://tolkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Amazon's Rings of Power: https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Power-Season/dp/B09QH98YG1
Withdrawal of UK proposal to expand scope of text and data mining (TDM): https://www.allenovery.com/en-gb/global/blogs/data-hub/uk-re-considers-proposed-exception-for-text-and-data-mining
UK Web Archive: https://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
Richard's journey to Bodley's Librarian: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtrainees/opening-doors-the-journey-to-bodleys-librarian/
Deal Library, Kent: https://local.kent.gov.uk/kb5/kent/directory/service.page?id=5GDeJlwVtCg
Ian Mowat, Historian and forward thinking librarian: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11953652.ian-mowat-historian-and-forward-thinking-librarian/
Cliff Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Lynch
The File by Timothy Garton Ash: https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-file/
Privacy is Power by Carissa Veliz: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442343/privacy-is-power-by-carissa-veliz/9780552177719
Simon Hopkinson's Saint-emilion au Chocolat: https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/saint-emilion-au-chocolat/

Copyright Waffle Episode 24 with Richard Ovenden - Bodley's Librarian

Jane and Chris talk to copyright legend Professor Carys Craig (and her best pal Brodie - pictured) about her copyright history, critical legal studies, the fact that copyright is not neutral, the saga of copyright litigation in Canadian universities, copyright anxiety and of course her favourite cake.

Editing by the fabulous Emma Guilbert

Carys Craig biography at Osgoode Law school
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-st…craig-carys-j/

Carys is the author of Copyright, Communication & Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (2011), and the co-editor of Trade-marks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Commentary, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2014) and Copyright: Cases and Commentary on the Canadian and International Law, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2013). Her award-winning work has been cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Carys on Twitter: twitter.com/CraigCarys

Links to other things discussed in this episode:

Carys Craig and Bob Tarantino’s article “An Hundred Stories in Ten Days”: COVID-19 Lessons for Culture, Learning, and Copyright Law: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol57/iss3/3/

Webinar 29: Friday 15th January: Carys Craig and Bob Tarantino: go.alt.ac.uk/UKCopyrightLit-29

Carys’s article Critical Copyright Law & the Politics of ‘IP’ – available at:
digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly…rks/2715/

CREATe Evidence conference where Chris and Jane met Carys in October 2022
www.create.ac.uk/copyright-eviden…sis-and-futures/

Carys’s paper from the Evidence conference on the evidence around copyright and gender:
www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/12/17/…the-connections/

Amy Thomas’s study from CREATe on women’s earnings – joint report with ALCS
www.create.ac.uk/blog/2023/10/31/…and-a-copyright/

Copyright Anxiety Scale research by Amanda Wakaruk and Celine Gareau-Brenan published in the Journal of Copyright Education and Librarianship:
www.jcel-pub.org/article/view/15212

York University vs Access Canada case
universityaffairs.ca/news/news-arti…ariff-dispute/

Supreme court judgement: decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs…18972/index.do

Ariel Katz – From Copyright Children to Copyright Adults blog post - arielkatz.org/archives/3578

CCH case - scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/…em/2125/index.do

Best practice in OERs – code of practice and webinar that we ran on the topic
cmsimpact.org/code/open-educational-resources/

Webinar 38: 11th June: Will Cross, Peter Jaszi, Meredith Jacob, Prue Adler and Dr Carys Craig. Codes of Best Practices in Fair 

Use in OERs: eu.bbcollab.com/recording/21726f2…f9b07cee91d82001f

Extension of Canadian copyright term www.yorku.ca/osgoode/iposgoode/…d-copyright-terms/

Free trade agreements of Canada - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade_…0after%20Germany).

Tunnock’s Teacakes - www.tunnock.co.uk/products/teacakes/

Nothing going into the public domain in Canada – link to news story?
www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scho…right-term-canada

AI and copyright stories in Canada: publishingperspectives.com/2024/01/can…till-unmet/

Best practices guide to OERs in Canada – a Association for Canadian Research Libraries publication: www.carl-abrc.ca/influencing-poli…ce-fair-dealing/

Copyright Waffle Episode 25 With Professor Carys Craig

A song written for the 20th anniversary of the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2025 performed live at Cardiff University following Professor Jane Secker's keynote talk on Tuesday 15 April 2025

This LILAC song 2025

Jane and Chris from copyrightliteracy.org talk to their most distinguished guest to date - copyright legend the Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob.

Robin talks about his journey from physics student at Cambridge through to his life as a barrister and eventually High Court judge. He gives us the inside scoop on the cases he defended and presided over and talks about some of his copyright heroes. And of course he tells us the name of his favourite cake.

This podcast interview was recorded on 15 January 2025. We are extremely grateful to Robin for his time and for his patience while he waited for us to finish this edit.

Robin's copyright heroes:
- William (Bill) Cornish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cornish 
- Hugh Laddie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laddie 
- Peter Prescott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Prescott_(barrister) 
- Anthony Walton - https://iporalhistory.co.uk/project/walton-anthony/ 
- Thomas Blanco White - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blanco_White 

Some selected cases:
- EMI Music Publishing vs Papathanasiou (Vangelis, Chariots of Fire): https://www.lostinmusic.org/cases/detail/16-emi-music-publishing-vs-papathanasiou-spheric 
- Hyperion Records vs Sawkins: https://www.5rb.com/case/hyperion-records-ltd-v-sawkins/ 
- Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc (the Lego case): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlego_AG_v_Tyco_Industries_Inc 
- Columbia Graphophone case: https://www.lostinmusic.org/cases/detail/10-frederic-austin-vs-columbia-gramophone-co 

Copyright Waffle Episode 29 with The Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob

Raag Bhairavi (Hindi: भैरबी) (Urdu: بھیرویں‎) is a Hindustani Classical heptatonic (Sampurna) Raag of Bhairavi Thaat. Traditionally it is a morning raga. In modern times, at least in Khyal Gayaki, it is usually performed as the concluding (finale) piece in concerts. It is the defining raga of its own Thaat.
Carnatic music has a Bhairavi raga which is quite different from the Hindustani raga.
Hanumatodi in Carnatic music has the same scale as the Bhairavi in Hindustani music.

Raga Bhairavi [Mandala - Healing Ragas  Music for Relaxation, Sleep and  Beyond]

Adam talks with British sporting legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

This episode was recorded remotely on July 1st, 2020.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Anneka Myson for additional editing. 

Podcast artwork by Helen Green https://helengreenillustration.com/

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