Title of Presentation: Understanding public rights: Copyright Kitchen case study

Presentation Abstract:
The Copyright Kitchen an example of simple practice working well.

This presentation looks at the idea, principles and implementation of the Copyright Kitchen, a product of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Copyright Kitchen is designed as an online resource to provide copyright information to Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) practitioners in an accessible and engaging way.

More people are being affected by copyright than ever before in the past. The VTE sector in particular, is being ‘buffeted’ on all sides by copyright and intellectual property implications. The increase in casual staff, the need to maintain industry relevance and currency, the increase in private training organisations, and a push for online training materials has dramatically increased the need for the VTE sector to look at ways to improve understanding of copyright within the sector.

This presentation looks at these influences through a story based approach, and demonstrates the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s Project; the Copyright Kitchen, It traces the inception and development of the Copyright Kitchen, examines its success since its launch early 2005 and the where to from here for the Kitchen.

Presentation by: 
Vanessa Tuckfield
Project Officer Copyright, Policy & Research, Australian Flexible Learning Framework; and the Copyright Officer for the Canberra Institute of Technology.