Graham, Rumi

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    50 shades of access: equalizing student access to media for coursework
    (University of Lethbridge, 2021) Graham, Rumi Y.; Taylor, Aaron
    Contribution to a roundtable on Strategies and Struggles in On-line Teaching During the Pandemic held on June 1, 2021 as part of the Film Studies Association of Canada-Association Canadienne d’Études Cinématographiques (FSAC-ACÉC) Annual Conference. Following on FSAC’s recent Statement on Copyright and Online Screenings, this contribution identifies practical, legal and philosophical challenges involving appropriate access to media required for film studies courses that affect both instructors and students alike. It also proposes two avenues for remediating access problems: pursuing reforms for unnecessarily restrictive aspects of Canada’s copyright law and developing guidelines for good practices that facilitate appropriate access to film studies content.
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    Before, during & after the pandemic: challenges in accessing & using media in academic settings
    (2022) Blankenship, Janelle; Graham, Rumi Y.; Innerd, Charlotte; Langrell, Kate
    An online panel presentation at the 2022 ABC Copyright Conference hosted by Western University. Teaching online using copyrighted films and other media has posed significant challenges for educational institutions for many years. Those challenges continued, if not intensified, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and will certainly persist into at least the near future. This session outlines recent initiatives undertaken collaboratively by film studies faculty, copyright practitioners, and academic librarians to find ways to alleviate or remedy obstacles to equitable use of media in educational settings.
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    Before, during & after the pandemic: challenges in accessing & using media in academic settings
    (2022) Aufderheide, Patricia; Graham, Rumi Y.; Nair, Meera; Taylor, Aaron
    An online workshop presented by the Media Access and Copyright Working Group, Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) during the 2022 FSAC Annual Conference. This workshop will provide an overview of the group's work and gather feedback from attendees. Before the conference the group will release a report that outlines three focal areas for the Association to pursue: advocacy for amending the Copyright Act to better support online teaching and learning; opportunities for accessing and exhibiting content using exceptions such as fair dealing; and best practices for repurposing and creating new videographic work using exceptions such as fair dealing. The workshop goals are to hear from a wide range of stakeholders on these issues and to prepare for the next stage of proposed Association working groups.
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    Best practice copyright codes for media use, re-use & preservation
    (2024) Whitehead, Jessica L.; Andersen, Joceline; Hanstke, Tamar; Smith, Christine F.; Singh, Cyrus S.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Taylor, Aaron
    A workshop presented at the 2024 annual conferences of the Film & Media Studies Association (FMSAC, June 16) and the Canadian Communication Association (CCA, June 19) in Montreal, Quebec. Participants discussed copyright problems commonly encountered as they carry out teaching, research, and other scholarly activities involving accessing, reusing, and preserving media content. Workshop presenters briefly outlined the origins and activities of the Media Access and Copyright (MAC) Working Group convened in 2021 to explore how these kinds of copyright challenges might be alleviated for media and communication scholars and academic librarians at post-secondary institutions across Canada. Presenters described how practitioner communities can collaboratively develop codes of best practices in using fair dealing and other statutory user's rights to ease copyright anxiety and copyright chill, which, in turn, can promote copyright-aligned ways of pursuing ordinary scholarly activities that further the educational and professional missions of academic staff who work in media-intensive fields.
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    Comment le droit d'auteur entrave à la créativité et à l'apprentissage, et comment les communautés canadiennes d'études sur les médias peuvent agir
    (Association canadienne d'études cinématographiques, 2022) Taylor, Aaron; Christensen, Alec; Selman, Brianne; Tepperman, Charles; Innerd, Charlotte; Baron, Jaimie; Blankenship, Janelle; Stidwill, Jenna; Langrell, Kate; Nair, Meera; Lyons, Owen; Graham, Rumi Y.; Rouleau, Thomas; Rioux, Valérie
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    Copyright codes of best practices for media access, reuse and preservation
    (2024) Graham, Rumi Y.; Langrell, Kate; McPeak, Taylor; Taylor, Don
    Session presented June 21, 2024 at the ABC Copyright Conference, Halifax, NS. Abstract: Educators, researchers, artist-scholars, and librarians face a pressing need to be able to continue to access, preserve, and reuse media content. Barriers to access, preservation, and reuse are increasing as copyright owners continue to use technology to lock-down access and move the industry away from physical formats towards streaming media and licensing, and the resultant overriding of copyright exceptions. This session highlights a pan-Canadian multi-institutional initiative to develop two best practices codes in applying fair dealing and other exceptions (user rights) in scholarly and professional practices involving copyright-protected media. The Media Access and Copyright Group (MAC) was created under the sponsorship of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada. Comprising about 40 communication and media studies scholars, academic librarians, copyright advisors, filmmakers, and legal experts, MAC is developing two codes to help media and communication scholars and academic librarians understand when unauthorized uses of media content may be permissible for educational, research-creation, or preservation purposes. The session will briefly outline the structure of MAC and its best practices research project,. This session also touches on the importance of best practices codes for fair dealing. In the Q&A, presenters will invite attendees to share their experiences in using, or advising on the use, of media content in the teaching and research environment and on the uncertainties they face in discerning copyright issues in this area.
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    Copyright practices & approaches at Canadian post-secondaries: a follow-up survey
    (2021) Graham, Rumi Y.; Winter, Christina
    This session will share results of a Spring 2020 survey that follows up on our 2015 survey of copyright practices at Canadian universities. The new survey expanded the scope of participants to include a somewhat broader range of post-secondary institutions. The aim is to provide an update on how Canadian post-secondary institutions address copyright education, management, and policy matters. We hope to shed light on some gaps in what is known about educational copying in the Canadian post-secondary education sector. These may include gaps identified in the 2019 INDU report on the statutory review of the Copyright Act.
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    Copyright practices and approaches at Canadian universities
    (2016) Graham, Rumi Y.; Winter, Christina
    This session [jointly presented by R. Graham and C. Winters] describes findings of a 2015 national survey of copyright practices and approaches at Canadian universities. It takes a look at what appears to have changed in the areas of copyright education, permissions management and policy development since 2008 when a similar survey was conducted by a different research team.
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    Copyright practices and approaches at Canadian universities: a preliminary update
    (2015) Graham, Rumi Y.
    Much has changed in the copyright sphere since a 2008 survey found that Canadian universities delegated responsibility for copyright in widely variant ways, and that frustration regarding a lack of guidance on how to interpret aspects of copyright legislation was common. A study is underway to update the 2008 survey.
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    COPYRIGHT the card game (Canadian version): copyright literacy through game-based learning
    (2019) Winter, Christina; Brunet, M.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Spong, S.
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    An evidence-informed picture of course-related copyright
    (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2016) Graham, Rumi Y.
    Recent changes in Canadian copyright law have prompted Canada’s educational institutions to reexamine their need for a blanket copying license. Users’ rights under the amended Copyright Act now include fair dealing for purposes of education, and the Supreme Court has established that copying short excerpts for classroom use can qualify as fair dealing. This study looks at one university’s examination of copied course materials made available via library reserve, coursepacks and its learning management system, and likely sources for copyright permissions, when needed. Results suggest that fair dealing is the most important and the institution’s blanket license is the least important basis for permissions clearance over a semester’s worth of copying.
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    How copyright impedes creativity and learning, and how Canadian Media Studies communities can take action
    (Film Studies Association of Canada, 2022) Taylor, Aaron; Christensen, Alec; Selman, Brianne; Tepperman, Charles; Innerd, Charlotte; Baron, Jaimie; Blankenship, Janelle; Stidwell, Jenna; Langrell, Kate; Nair, Meera; Lyons, Owen; Graham, Rumi Y.; Rouleau, Thomas; Rioux, Valérie
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    How information literate are they? : a SAILS study of (mostly) first-year students at the U of L
    (University of Lethbridge, Teaching Centre, 2016) Cowan, Sandra A.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Eva, Nicole
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    Interns in action: exploring an LIS internship program at a Canadian university library
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022) Graham, Rumi Y.; Scott, Emma; Rocca, Marissa
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    Leaps in media access & reuse: copyright codes of best practice
    (2024) Smith, Christine F.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Revitt, Eva
    Session co-presented June 5, 2024 at the 52 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science held online June 4 - 7, 2024. Abstract: Academic librarians and media scholars face increasing pressures to preserve, provide access to, and reuse media technology. Simultaneously, technological advances add complexities to assessing the applicability of fair dealing to unauthorized scholarly uses of copyright-protected content. To address these challenges, concerned members of these two communities have joined forces to create the Media Access and Copyright (MAC) Working Group. This session provides an overview of MAC's structure and achievements as well as its current research project, the development of two codes of best practices aimed at supporting informed decision making in the application of fair dealing by scholars and practitioners.
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    Leaps in media access & reuse: copyright codes of best practice
    (2024) Smith, Christine F.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Revitt, Eva
    Extended abstract of a co-authored paper submitted to the 52 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science held online June 4 - 7, 2024. Winner, Best Submission by a Practitioner. Academic librarians and media scholars face increasing pressures to preserve, provide access to, and reuse media technology. Simultaneously, technological advances add complexities to assessing the applicability of fair dealing to unauthorized scholarly uses of copyright-protected content. To address these challenges, concerned members of these two communities have joined forces to create the Media Access and Copyright (MAC) Working Group. This paper provides an overview of MAC's structure and achievements as well as its current research project, the development of two codes of best practices aimed at supporting informed decision making in the application of fair dealing by scholars and practitioners.
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    "Let's start a journal!": the multidisciplinary graduate student journal as educational opportunity
    (Michigan Publishing, 2018) Esau, Paul; Viejou, Carey; Chow, Sylvia S. T.; Dohms, Kimberly M.; Firth, Steven J.; McKinnon, Jarret; Morrison, Dorothea; Parsons, Reed; Rieger, Courtney; Spiric, Vanja; Toth, Elaine; Ueland, Kayla; Graham, Rumi Y.; O'Donnell, Daniel Paul
    The University of Lethbridge is a medium-sized, primarily undergraduate, comprehensive research university on the Canadian Prairies in Alberta. It has a small but growing graduate school, within which most students are studying at the masters level. For many years, the graduate student elected representative body, the Graduate Students Association (GSA), has sponsored an annual refereed conference, Meeting of the Minds. In 2015 the GSA decided to supplement this conference with an accompanying journal, also called Meeting of the Minds. This article discusses the lessons learned in establishing this journal and overseeing its first two years of operations (and first year of publication). The article concentrates on two sets of problems: 1) philosophical, economic, and sociological issues that arose at the conceptual level while establishing a multidisciplinary, institution-focused graduate journal; and 2) technical, bibliographic, organizational, and economic issues encountered in attempting to address these conceptual concerns and ensure the long-term viability of the research accepted and published. Although the journal was not able to solve all the problems that arose during the first two years of operation, several solutions on the organizational, technological, economic, and bibliographic levels were developed that might be used by others establishing similar scholar- or student-led journals.