Fall Dissertations and Copyright Workshops

Will your thesis or dissertation raise copyright issues?  Learn about navigating copyright issues in a digital environment.

The Graduate School and the University Libraries Intellectual Property Rights Office will be holding workshops for graduate students on copyright law and author rights and responsibilities.  The workshops will help sort out questions like ...

• Everyone quotes the work of other scholars in their dissertation. As long as the quotes are acknowledged, does this ever raise copyright issues?
• I found a photo online on a public website. Can I include it in my dissertation since everything's free on the internet?
• Should I pay $45 and register copyright for my dissertation?
• I have this great film clip from the 1940s with images and music that I'd like to include with my dissertation. Are there different copyright rules for different audio-visual formats?
• Chapter 1 of my dissertation has been published in a journal. Is this a problem?

All graduate students should plan on attending one of these workshops while at Emory.  They will help you prepare your thesis or dissertation, and will provide vital information for all your future academic publishing endeavors.

The workshop will last one hour, and are scheduled for four times through the semester.  Several sessions will have a particular focus to address concerns specific to a discipline.

See the list of dates, times and locations to the right. If you cannot attend a session with a focus related to your discipline, feel free to attend the general session.  Each workshop will allow time for specific questions.

If you cannot attend any session, a video workshop is available on Blackboard (https://classes.emory.edu) under the organization name Copyright Education Initiative (click on Copyright Videos in left hand column of the Blackboard page).

If you attended one of the workshops last semester, no need to attend again, but feel free to contact Lisa Macklin (lisa.macklin@emory.edu or 404-727-1535) or Heather Williams (hrwilli@emory.edu or 404-727-0127) in the library if you have questions. 

We look forward to seeing you there.  Please sign up for a workshop -- just click here and fill out the form.  If you have any questions, please contact Heather.