Higher Education Blog

Welcome to our blog series written especially for Higher Education. We’ve been working hard on it and we hope you like it and find it useful. If you want to add your voice to any of the blogs then we encourage you to add your comments after the blog. We want to hear your thoughts!

We will be publishing several blogs a month – some written by us, and some written by you. We’re looking for guest writers from the world of Higher Education to write about anything that is of interest and relevance to you. If you would like to get involved and write a blog that we can publish here, please complete this form.

Augmented Reality – An Educator's Response

19th February 2019

Debbie Holley

Debbie Holley, Professor of Learning Innovation and Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning at Bournemouth University, outlines how educators can harness technologies for learning in meaningful ways.

The Marrakesh Treaty & the CLA Higher Education Licence

11th February 2019

Becky Owen

This blog post looks at how the UK implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty into law affects the CLA Higher Education Licence.

Engaging Academics in Copyright

4th February 2019

Dave Puplett

Dave Puplett shares how the Library Services team at the University of Greenwich are engaging the rest of the institution in copyright.

Rethinking Referencing

21st January 2019

David Bennett

University of Portsmouth's David Bennett looks at the need to rethink the current referrencing system.

The Weird and Wonderful World of Digitisation

14th January 2019

Martin Snelling

Martin Snelling discusses his journey in the world of digitisation, from starting off with Packtracker to becoming part of the DCS project.

World Braille Day 2019: Copyright & Accessibility

4th January 2019

Becky Owen

For World Braille Day 2019, we look at how exceptions in Copyright law make published works accessible to people with disabilities. This post will provide guidance for our licensees who wish to produce copies for staff and students with a disability.

All I Want For Christmas... is a working stapler!

20th December 2018

Becky Owen

Stuck on what present to buy for the Academic Librarian in your life?

Blotting the Advertising Copy Book

10th December 2018

Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson discusses why the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is battling misleading adverts from Essay Writing Services, better known as "Essay Mills".

Copyright law does not protect the taste of cheese

3rd December 2018

Estelle Derclaye

Estelle Derclaye, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Nottingham, discusses the outcome of the recent CJEU case C-310/17 Levola Hengelo v Smilde Foods and what it means for the world of copyright.

#TBT Copying from Books: an Academic Author's Perspective

29th November 2018

Gerald Cole

Today, we're throwing back to an article written by Gerald Cole, former author-director of CLA. He wrote about copying books from an Academic Author's perspective.

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Welcome to our blog series written especially for Higher Education. We’ve been working hard on it and we hope you like it and find it useful. If you want to add your voice to any of the blogs then we encourage you to add your comments after the blog. We want to hear your thoughts!