Welcome! I hope that this resource, generously funded by the Scholarly Communication Notebook, will be useful to information science educators and students wishing to learn a bit more about copyright. Instructors, please feel free to direct your students to these pages as you assign different topics in your course. I have created an instructor’s manual to go along with each assignment. If you are an instructor and wish to obtain the instruction manual, please e-mail Sara Benson at srbenson@illinois.edu.

This resource is designed to be modular. That is, you could assign this as a single class session or an entire semester. You could assign this in order, or curate the order of the podcast as it fits your syllabus. In any event, the goal is to encourage instructors to use ©hat as a vehicle to teach about copyright. So, let’s get started!

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About the Author:

Sara R. Benson is the copyright librarian and an assistant professor at the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, an LLM from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley, and an MSLIS from the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois.

Prior to joining the library, Sara was a lecturer at the University of Illinois College of Law for ten years. She edited the popular book titled “Copyright Conversations: Rights Literacy in a Digital World” published by the ACRL in 2019.

She is also the author of  Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Copyright Questions published by ALA Editions in 2021. Sara is the host of the Podcast ©hat (“Copyright Chat”) available on iTunes.

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