Loughborough Open Research Team

Halloween copyright quiz! Have a spooktacular time!

It is quiz time! Give our Halloween copyright quiz a go and test your copyright knowledge!

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#Quiz #Copyright #Halloween

The Legends of Creepy Copyright: A Short Story by our Resident Ghoul, Sam Hain Copyright and Halloween, oh my!

🎃👻 Double, Double Copyright Trouble! 👻🎃

Whether it’s a spooky story, a haunted design, or a chilling soundtrack—copyright protects it all. Have a read of our new blog! 🧙♀️✨

🔗 blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/10/...

#Copyright #HalloweenIP

🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!

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Submit a session idea for our leading Data Protection Conference in 2026 and you could secure a free place at the event. Apply at https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/DataConf26

Join us next year (26-27 February 2026) as we explore what is next for community-led #OpenAccess books

📍 Loughborough University | London or online
🎫 Registration is now open!
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Jane Austen's Men: From Woke To Bloke Wed Nov 19th 7-8pm | Ink@84 Books JANE AUSTEN’S MEN: FROM WOKE TO BLOKE with Dr Zoë McGee Which of Austen’s men would you eliminate first? To celebrate Jane Austen's 250th, we’re holding a ‘balloon’ debate to rate Austen’s male chara...

To celebrate Jane Austen's 250th, @ink84books.bsky.social are debating and rating Austen’s male characters with @thezhm.bsky.social, author of 'Courting Disaster'.
Who will be the last Austen hero standing?
Tickets on sale now: www.ink84bookshop.co.uk/product-page... #booksky #London

New self-guided training on copyright in Higher Education, mainly targeted at staff and students at Loughborough University.

Have a look: learn.lboro.ac.uk/ludata/tel/a...

#Copyright #HigherEducation #LoughboroughUniversity

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The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025
Find out more 👇
www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @hgrporg.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

Green library delegates

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TODAY’S THE DAY! It’s #GreenLibraries Week, and we're launching it with our third Green Libraries Conference on the sunny banks of the Regents Canal at Kings Place for a full day of all things green, sustainable and climate-facing. Hope you all have a great GREEN week!

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NAG Webinar Week 2025 is available to book! Join us free for one or all of these great sessions from librarians across the UK who are sharing their projects!
nag.org.uk/events/
Don't worry if you can't make it live; open access recordings will be available for all.
📚 #NAGWebinarWeek

The EU supports open science, but legislative and regulatory frameworks often act as barriers, preventing the full implementation of its principles. We need copyright law to support, not hinder, research. #CopyrightReform
👉Check which legal barriers prevent you from 100% OA. Share your challenges.👇

Altmetric is now tracking podcasts as a new attention source Podcasts in Altmetric: Discover real-world conversations shaping public understanding of research

Want to find out if your research has been mentioned in a podcast? You can now track that in Altmetric.

www.altmetric.com/altmetric-ne...

October Copyright Reads All the best reads collated for your perusal!

It is finally that time of the month! Our new copyright reads blog is up! Have a look and why not subscribe to our digest!

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/10/...

#AcademicSky #Copyright #LoughboroughUniversity

#OpenAccess! INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES WITH COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE: Moving Toward Equitable Partnerships, edited by Michèle Companion and Jason D. Rivera has now published.

Find out more here: bit.ly/46o1rzD

#Sociology #PoliticalAnthropology #AppliedAnthropology

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Do your online habits have a #CarbonFootprint? 💻🌍

With our new Digital #Sustainability pathway, you'll discover:
✅ Greener online study & work tips
✅ The cost of AI tools
✅ How to cope with climate anxiety

Build digital literacy & make a positive impact. Explore now: www.open.ac.uk/libraryservi...

Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from our unique archive collections!

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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

That is a good question! Potentially a higher number of AI films, however, the film industry is currently fighting back, or at least some of them are.

There is an interesting webinar coming up The future of the movie industry in the wake of generative AI. Relevant in today's litigious landscape!

Have a look: www.4ipcouncil.com/research/fut...

📍Zoom
📆 Oct 30, 2025
🕒 03:00 PM London

#AcademicSky #AI #MovieIndustry

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We're proud to support #TheLibrarians - a gripping story of ordinary people on the frontlines, risking everything to uphold fundamental rights. With freedom to read under attack, the heroes are... everyday librarians. @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social UK cinemas from 26 Sept: www.thelibrarians.film

and now also available from our repository: hdl.handle.net/2134/2853221...

Terrible news from Belgium, where a Trumpian-style Flemish government want to close the Institute for Development Policy @uantwerpen.be. Please support and share!

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Welcome everyone to a new academic year! To celebrate we decided to write a blog post introducing copyright law and highlighting the bits we considered most relevant. Why not head over to our blog and have a read:

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2025/09/...

#AcademicSky #Copyright #BlogPost

Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire How do political rulers in post-conflict states manage the threat posed by the former leaders of non-state armed groups? Ex-rebel leaders often retain access to material resources and informal arme...

My article "Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire",
co-authored with best writing mates Phil Martin (@georgemasonu.bsky.social) and
Jeremy Speight (@uafairbanks.bsky.social)
is finally out Open Access with #SecurityStudies!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/6

Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery sue Chinese AI firm as Hollywood's copyright battles spread Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery sued China-based AI firm MiniMax for copyright infringement, the second lawsuit that major studios have filed as the entertainment industry grapples with t...

More lawsuits against AI companies from film industry giants. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

#AI #Lawsuits #Copyright #Infringement

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Uni students are using AI to ‘ask stupid questions’ and get feedback on their work Research shows nearly half of surveyed Australian university students use generative artificial intelligence for feedback.

Students thoughts on using AI in HE. Have a read, very good points. [Research done in Australia] theconversation.com/uni-students...

#AI #HigherEducation

‘They said I should be purged and killed’: The librarians who stood up for free speech

Bleistift auf Papier, eigenhändig geschriebener Brief Goethes an Charlotte von Stein, 18. September 1780. Aus den Beständen des Goethe- und Schiller-Archivs, GSA 29/487,I, Blatt 80.

"Heute geht mirs recht übel und es ist mir alles in den Weeg gekommen dass ich Ihnen nicht die Continuation meines mikroscopisch metaphisisch politischen Diarii durch diese Ochsenpost überschicken kann." #Goethe an Charlotte von Stein  am 18.9.1780. Der Brief kam mit  Ochsen in Kochberg an.

Have you ever wondered how to apply a CC licence to your YouTube video? Fret no more. Have a look at The University of Edinburgh's instructions on how to do so. PDF also available: open.ed.ac.uk/how-to-guide...

#YouTube #CClicence