It begins…. Some news from me. I’m delighted to say that I’m beginning a course in Copyright law of the UK, EU and US at Kings College London. Last week marked the official start, so I’ve just got going.
It’s exciting and not a little daunting to be returning to study many years after my degree. However, I’ve worked with rights and copyright for many years, and I’m really looking forward to putting that knowledge on a more formal footing.
For me, one of the main reasons for following the course is to see more clearly how copyright affects us day to day, in the things we can or can’t publish, and the things we can reuse and repurpose.
I’m particularly intrigued by how that’s going to play out from here onwards, with digital, market and political changes (yes, Brexit, but much more too) all conspiring to make digital use both easier and more complicated at the same time…
I’ll be sharing a few of my insights with you as I go through the course, particularly things that strike me as having a real-world impact on what we can and can’t do with copyright content – our own, or other people’s.
However, it will still be “business as normal” for me throughout the course, and this week I’m about to head off to Frankfurt Book Fair. No doubt I’ll see many of you there.