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.

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)

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/

Jane and Chris from copyrightliteracy.org talk to Caroline Ball, academic librarian at the University of Derby and UK Wikimedian of the Year 2020. Caroline tells us about her copyright history in fan fiction, her pioneering use of Wikipedia for Information Literacy teaching and her involvement in the EbookSOS campaign.

Links to information in the podcast:

Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody by Michael Gerber https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Barry_Trotter

It’s a Wonderful Life, Basically (episode of Sorry!) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705319/

Archive of Our Own (Organization for Transformative Works) https://archiveofourown.org/about

Adam Buxton interview with Sir Philip Pullman https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/25

Caroline Ball UK Wikimedian of the Year 2020 https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2020

1Lib1Ref campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Lib1Ref

Academic Ebook Investigation #EbookSOS Campaign https://academicebookinvestigation.org/

Jane and Chris talk to Dr Maren Deepwell, CEO of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) about her history and the links between copyright and online learning at a time of pandemic. We discuss her PhD studies into Victorian cemeteries, open leadership, the new ALT Copyright and Online Learning Special Interest Group (CoOL SIG), her copyright heroes, pets and of course her favourite cake.

Chris and Jane waffle with Dr Ben Marsh of internet singing sensations the Marsh Family. Ben talks about his family's rise to fame performing parody versions of popular songs during the lockdown, the challenges of navigating copyright law and his thoughts on freedom of expression. He also tells us about his academic work at the University of Kent, gives a shout out to his copyright heroes and tells us about his favourite cake.

Here are some links to things we refer to in the podcast:

Marsh Family YouTube page - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmgu60G09zrL9JsrFZYgqA/videos

We're Not Singing Sea Shanties, The Marsh Family Comic Relief song - https://youtu.be/baRcYdJF7-c

Marsh Family Just Giving page - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/marshfamilysongs

Craig, C. and Tarantino, B. 'An Hundred Stories in Ten Days': COVID-19 Lessons for Culture, Learning, and Copyright Law https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3691294

Marsh, B. 'Unravelled Dreams' - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/unravelled-dreams/E3A4D6048E56C52A556F01F20EF6D883

House of Lords Inquiry into Freedom of Expression online - https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/312/freedom-of-expression-online

In this podcast Jane and Chris talk to Dr Richard Misek, Senior Lecture in Film at the University of Kent. They talk about his involvement with copyright as a film maker and teacher, the challenges that copyright can cause for creative reuse and the importance of fair dealing and fair use. He also talks about his copyright heroes, and of course his favourite cakes.

Chris and Jane talk to Mark Walford, Vice President Rights & Business Development at Sage Publishing. We talk about his copyright history in the publishing industry, his historical copyright hero and a nerdy fact about copyright which involves an epic battle. And of course they talk about cake, but also biscuits. At great length. You might want to skip that bit when you get to it.

In this episode Chris and Jane talk to music publisher, composer, musician and copyright enthusiast Simon Anderson, Director of Publishing at Audio Network. Simon talks about his history in the music industry, the importance of copyright and his research into copyright infringement cases. He also shares his copyright heroes, his favourite nerdy facts about copyright and the latest news in music and copyright. And of course, he talks about his favourite cake.

There are some short extracts from the musical works discussed, included under fair dealing provisions:

Blurred Lines - Thicke/Williams/Harris Jr/Gaye, 2013

Got to Give It Up - Gaye, 1976

Let's Get it On - Gaye/Townsend, 1973

Thinking Out Loud - Sheeran/Wadge, 2014

Chris and Jane talk to Sol Picciotto, Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University about his experiences of teaching in higher education and the part he played in defining copyright licensing in the UK. Sol's story starts in Dar Es Salaam in the 1960s, travels through the UK copyright tribunal and ends up in the Middle East where we discuss his favourite sweet treat.