Because it's coming right, coming right, coming right, all right. Good morning. Morning, everyone. Sounds a bit like we're coming from under the sea there with that audio. Does it sound like, OK, well, I'm doing my best. I'm Chris Morrison. And I'm Jane Secker. I'm your host today for Copyright and Online Learning. We are. The 47th webinar, which is good going, isn't it? It's not bad, yes. Yes, we're moving from crisis to uncertainty, maybe into a period of transition. We might, we did use the transition word, didn't we? So maybe we'll do a bit of rebranding later. But just to say, we are co-chairs of the Copyright and Online Learning Special Interest Group of ALT, the Association for Learning Technology. I work at the University of Kent. Jane works at City University of London. And we also do loads of stuff around Copyright and Interest.org, for those of you that are new to this. But I think looking at the participant list, most people are old-timers. But if you are new, welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the place to be if you're interested in copyright and online learning. Absolutely. So what have we got lined up today, Chris? Come on, take us there. We've got some good copyright news, some interesting stuff. There always does seem to be stuff to talk about, always lots of events. So we're going to be chatting about that. Oh, it says Confessions of a Learning Technologist. That's incorrect. I did not update the slide. Today's actually about Fair Dealing Week, isn't it? Oh, we're going to get Sandy and Greg to do some Confessions of a Learning Technologist. Yeah, and it says someone from the early. So this is the one slide that we didn't particularly scrutinise, particularly carefully. So let's move on. Let's move on very quickly. It's just, let's go straight to the last minute. So you pick this one up. Yes, OK. So I've taken to outdoor swimming. I was swimming last night. Yeah, it was a bit mad, actually. There were leaves blowing around all over the place. Apparently the water was 21 degrees, but I'm not convinced it was 21 degrees. It was the coldest yet, and I don't have a wetsuit. And yeah, it's absolutely great fun, actually. This is, I'm delighted that the pool near me remained open in the winter. And I have to say, I feel exhilarated at it. But Chris kind of always wanted to have to outdo me. Yes, and I can see Sam. Yeah, 6.5, I think. His name is in the area. So a dream of 21 degrees centigrade. The air temperature was 8 degrees when I got into the River Way. I think it is in Guildford a couple of weeks ago. So that's me. I think it was probably about, yeah, 8, maybe, around that. It was pretty. That face didn't get any better, did it, either? I've seen a whole series of photos, and basically you've just got that face on the whole time. Yeah, the rest of the photos are definitely not safe for work. I mean, nothing particularly bad, but really I didn't want to just be, pictures of me bathing. But anyway, that is a face really easy to put on. OK, it is outdoor swimming while swimming is brilliant. If you haven't tried all the science shows that the health benefits are marvellous as well as all that stuff. So, Sam, I think we might need to have a special presentation. Yeah, I think so. I think Sam can come and join us and talk a bit about some of her. You do like canoeing and kayaking, don't you, Sam, as well? All sorts of stuff. Yeah. Right, let's go, Chris. But Sam, come and join us. I'm actually a learning technologist under water, or in the water. Oh, a t-shirt ordered. OK, so, Chris. So, we have the archive here. And we said this last time we need to update, but now we are actually putting all these videos on YouTube. So, you will be able to see the one YouTube as well. We need to update that slide. Perhaps you can make a note for us to do that. At some point, Jane, that would be good. So, yeah, that's where the archive is. And let's move on to... Copyright news, copyright news, copyright news, copyright news, copyright news. So, some good news coming up today. Some people's favourite jingle. Some people's favourite jingle. There we go. Just maybe some of you will have seen this on the list. List copy seeks. So, Deborah Ferns, who is joining us today. Congratulations, Deborah, on your new role, Copywriter and Licensing Compliance Manager at Strathclyde. Excellent. And really good that you've got this vacancy out there to a new post. And I just think it's fantastic that we're seeing universities continuing to invest in copyright support, dedicated people working in this area. And so, that's going to be a really, really good opportunity. I'm sure those here today will be interested in looking at that. So, Deborah, I know you're going to talk a bit later about the event that's coming up, this girl event, if you are, in fact, are here and listening in. So, perhaps later on, if you want to say anything about that, we can hand over to you then. But I'm looking, is Deborah actually on the call at the moment? Yeah, Deborah's here. She's... I've made a decision to... Yeah, she is. Don't worry. Come on, I'm all over here. So, I'm looking in the long list. I apologise. Let's move on to the next item, please. Yes. So, we've had a busy week. We did what are called the digitally-enhanced webinars. I didn't feel very digitally-enhanced. I was just in teams. But your colleagues in the online learning team at Kent did an absolutely fantastic series of... Or they are doing a fantastic series of webinars. There was over 300 people there, Chris. Well done. It was crazy. Phil Anthony, my colleague, learning technologist of the year 2021, no doubt, he should be said, has been hosting these kind of for the same sort of time period that we have. But yeah, it's hugely popular. Really, really brilliant presentations. They allowed us to come in and do 15 minutes of chaos, which was very enjoyable. But yeah, no, it was really good to be part of it. Yeah, so that was our presentation. Yep, yep. And if you're interested, there's the recording that we avow a bit isn't right up yet. But if you go to the YouTube channel, hit that like and subscribe button and click the bell to never miss another video. I'm sure they will be very... Well, you would find it very interesting if you are wanting to find out about teaching with technology, digital technology, and how it all works. And I think they should be very, very keen on that. And I put up our slides. They need to invite you back to talk about your module in more depth. I've laid some fairly not very subtle hints. Thank you. Thank you. You're very kind. You're very kind. Yes, so our slides are available as well. If anybody wants to have a look at what we were talking about, but they will look quite familiar to many of you, I'm sure. Okay, next up. Shall I do this one? Yes, you do this one. Yeah, so I was interested. I follow Corey Doctorow, the sort of writer. He spoke, he did a keynote a couple of years ago, actually a select conference. And he is very interested in sort of issues related to copyright information and sort of digital technology. And I know we had a closed session last year about image and copyright sort of trolling and image reuse and creative commons. And we've been doing some work in this area. And actually, I was spotted on, he was tweeting about the facts that he's just written a piece on medium. I've just popped a link into that, which is an open letter to the CEO of Pixie, who were one of the picture agencies that I think some of us might have had some dealings with where we might be getting these demands for payment. So Corey actually got a couple of these himself. So it's based on his experience and he wrote an open letter to the CEO of Pixie. I would suggest you have a look at it. It's very, very interesting. And yeah, we are still working in this area, aren't we, as well? We're looking to put out, hopefully, a blog post about this fairly soon. Yeah, yeah. Some sort of guidance about things to think about at the very least. We had one recently, it wasn't a Pixie claim, but it was one of these types of claims. We went back to the lecturer and said, what happened here? Did you get permissions? Like, yeah, I call it from Pixie Bay. And then we said, we went back to this agency that contacted us and said, well, it's on Pixie Bay. They went, oh yeah, so it is. OK, no worries. It's like some of the level of, we talked about this in the past of due diligence, that they are actually doing always the first thing is to question whether they actually have the rights to be contacting you in the first place. Absolutely. But it is, he does also pick up the point about people using the Creative Commons 2.0 licenses and deliberately seeding sites like Flickr with photos that they know people are going to want to use and then chasing them up when they make very, very small mistakes with the way they might have attributed to the image. So there's quite a lot in that piece about it. Yeah, I definitely recommend that for an interest in read and something to think about if your university has had any of these threatening letters from similar companies. So the next thing, we're getting very excited about this conference. We were supposed to key note this in 2020, weren't we? That was the initial plan and then 2021. But now actually playful learning is taking place in July of 2022, barring any other unforeseen events. But we're really, really excited about this whole area of playfulness and as you know, Jane and I like playing games about copyright and being playful. But we have actually just written an article which is due to feature in an associated journal about our approach and what it means around copyright. So we're going to be exploring some of those in this presentation. And the call for papers is still out, isn't it? For anyone else involved? It is. It closes today. It does close today. So it's actually, it's not papers as such. So they're looking for all sorts of types of like a demo of a game. If you've got a game or, you know, it's any anything like really different as well. There's this sort of suggesting you might want to do something where you take people outside on a walk or all sorts of exciting ideas. I think it's just 300 words, the abstracts you've got to put in of what your idea is. So, yeah, sounds it's definitely going to be a fun event. And yeah, we're looking forward to it. We are indeed. OK, do you want to do the final item here? Well, I queue up the thing that we're going to do next. Yeah, so last item. I don't know if people who are CILIP members may well have seen the announcement about the CILIP Copyright Conference. It is actually happening online this year. So not a face to face event on the 18th of May. There's a feature. If you are a CILIP member in Information Professional, telling you a bit more about the event, I've just popped a link in as well, where you can find out more and register. So and James is joining us today. And I know James is going to be speaking at the conference, but also Professor Tanya Applin, who was Chris's supervisor when he was doing his masters. So lots of, yeah, lots of great speakers lined up there and check that out. Yes, so absolutely. So shall we move on? Are we ready for today's exciting? I think we might be. Yeah, so some of you may have seen this. So what I'm going to do now, seamless, a seamless transition. I say seamless because I'm talking in order to pad it out. Will this work? Here we go. We're going to play you the trailer. Hey, who's got a guest? Who's spotlighted a guest? We have our guest today, I think he'll be known to some of our regulars at our webinar series. It's Carl K Courtney, who is the Harvard Copyright Advisor. Got his bow tie on, looking fabulous today. Kyle, why have you joined us? What are we chatting about? Oh, well, I'm excited because fair use, fair dealing week is coming up and the last full week in February. And I think it's a great example of successful grassroots efforts organizing by cultural institutions, including libraries, archives and museums. Wow, that sounds like fun. So how can people find out more about this? Is there a website or something? Or do they have to, you know, read it in a book? No, they can go to fairuseweek.org and that will highlight all the number of ways in which you can celebrate fair use, fair dealing week. Which is participation welcomed. Excellent. I think there is an event coming up, Chris, as well, isn't there? So we might be a little bit involved in. We are, yeah. So just to say for the first time, we are organizing a whole week's worth of events in the UK. And it's not to celebrate fair use, it's to celebrate fair dealing and its relationship to fair use. So we're reaching across the pond and forging links with our colonial cousins. So, yes, we will be having a launch event and we will be welcoming Kyle to join us to explain a bit more about fair use and fair dealing and have a bit of a discussion. So we're looking forward to having you on Monday, the 21st of February as part of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies webinar. Excellent. Yeah, well, thanks a lot for joining us. And we hope that we see some of our regulars at the webinar coming along during Fair Use, Fair Dealing Week. Yeah. Cheers. Bye. Bye. So there we are. Well, that was amazing. That was a recording. That's not the real Kyle. That's Kyle a few days ago, but he is. Oh, I suddenly got an advert for Les Mills Plus coming through on the other screen. Right. OK. We can't see it. Don't worry. We are very, very excited about Fair Dealing Week coming, Fair Use, Fair Dealing Week coming to the UK for the first time and that we've managed to get Kyle's involvement. And that's really what we're going to be talking about now, isn't it? I will get the slides back up so we can talk about the initial event. So is that where we're going to start, isn't it? Yeah. And I can just very, very briefly. I mean, the Fair Use Week, I think, has run for probably about three or four years. It started, Kyle started this in the US. Obviously, Fair Use is not the same as Fair Dealing, but the Canadians joined in quite quickly. And so that's why they kind of brand it Fair Use and Fair Dealing Week, because obviously, Canada has the same legal tradition as us. So they have the concept of Fair Dealing in their law. But to our knowledge, there has not been a Fair Dealing Week in the UK prior to what's happening next week. And we're excited about it. We're hoping that it might grow in future years. It might become something like Open Access Week. And, yeah, we really hope to see you at the Kickoff event that we're really delighted that the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is going to be hosting, aren't we, Chris? So we are. Yes, there's the link. We're talking about the event on Monday evening and six o'clock. Chris has just popped the link in. But I think we're going to hand over, aren't we, to Sandy, who's from ILAS? Yes, we are going to hand over to Sandy. Yeah, yeah. Say a few words about that event. So, Sandy, are you with us? I am. I am. Can you hear me now? Yeah. I'm here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, so I work for IELTS, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, which is I've only been there a short while, joined the pandemic. So that was interesting. But it is one of the largest legal research libraries, apparently in the world, apparently, as I just realised. Not that many people know about us, but we're part of the University of London School of Advanced Studies. But we are the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies based at Russell Square, Russell Square, if anybody wants to pop in. But it is actually you can't. Sorry, it's only a postgraduate library, unless unless you mention my name and I'll give you a tour. But Jane and Chris have asked me just to explain briefly how this connection came about. So I work with the library and I also work with University of London Press. We produce open access books. And one of my colleagues asked me about using a quotation in one of the books, and he mentioned fair use. And I thought I should know this. So I kind of went away and I looked in the library and I got a bit confused and thought, well, I'm sure I know this. I know what this is about. I then got confused between fair use, fair dealing. I then realised things had changed in 2014. I then sort of panicked a bit and then couldn't find the answer in the world's largest legal resource library. So what do you do? You contact Jane and Chris. So that was the connection there. So I met Jane and Chris a long, long time ago at a copyright conference in Poland where I was very impressed because I played their game and I won some quality street chocolates. And that's that's always a nice thing when you win a prize. So I remember, but it worked. It worked. So anyway, Jane and Chris came to my aid, pointed me in the right direction and my colleague was quite happy with the result. I then sort of tried to read up again on what everything's everything you're doing. Chris and Jane. And I realised there's a whole world out there that I didn't know about. I've always worked with lawyers. I've always told lawyers not to breach copyright. They very often ignore that advice. And then I realised that now I'm working for an academic institution. There's a whole new angle of copyright that students need. So I'm still quite new to that. But then I realised that everybody needs to know a bit more about this. Jane mentioned the Fair Dealing, the Fair Use Conference, the Fair Use Week. And I think Jane then came up with the art. Jane and Chris came up with the idea of why not do it in the UK? And I thought that's a good idea. And then I rather rationally said, maybe we can maybe we can help. There's probably seemed like a good idea. It is a good idea. We are really happy to be able to to hold the large event. But I'm just really pleased that I'm not presenting or speaking or trying to explain Fair Use and Fair Dealing to anybody else. Yeah. Oh, Sandy, I give it six months and I reckon you'll you'll be you'll you'll be very confident in it. So that's it, really. And we're hoping if you, you know, already signed up, you can still sign up for the webinar on Monday. Yeah, it will be recorded. So it will be available at a later stage. Fantastic. No, that's it. That's brilliant. That's really good. We also just it is worth saying, I think there was a point last year in the autumn where we were really hoping we were actually going to hold this event, weren't we at Russell Square in person? And we were going to be able to invite people to come and also potentially have people joining us online. We took the decision just before Christmas with the way things were with Omicron that it really wasn't looking good to have a face to face event. But what I really hope is maybe it might be the start of a beautiful partnership where we could have some more copyright events at the world's largest legal library. Yeah, yeah. Like no need to happen, perhaps with all the copyright books out as well. Yes. Thank you, Sandy. Thank you very much. Bye. Bye. And just to say, I put a note in there that I did. I did go to the aisles when I was doing my M.A. And it was very, very useful because it does have the stuff you need, the stuff that wasn't in the Kent Library and wasn't available online. So the power of libraries and specialist libraries right there. And I think the thing for me about this event that's going to be really exciting is clearly we're kind of kicking it off. We're explaining what this week is all about. But then we also wanted something that actually had quite a lot of substance to it. And the fact that we've got Emily Hudson talking about the project that she and Tanya Applin have been working on in terms of quotation norms. It's going to be really interesting. Some of you have seen Emily talk about that before, but I think in this context she will have more time. The work they've done is more advanced and we'll be able to be putting it in the context of how do we raise awareness of this in different communities and how does fair dealing actually support all those different communities? It's not as if it's something with only librarians or copyright users make use of. It's actually something which is there in the whole system for everyone to take advantage of. So it's great. We've got Kyle coming, I think, isn't it, as well, Chris? He's going to be tuning in. I think it's lunchtime for him over in Boston. And it's obviously a busy week for him because he's running a whole host of events for Fair Youth Week. But I do recommend having a look at the website if you haven't seen the kinds of things that loads of American libraries put on during that week. Because it really is, I think, showing us what we could be doing to further explain how copyright works to our users. So I've just moved on to the next event and I'm going to hand over to Deborah, Deborah Ferns, who said, Deborah is going to be talking about Debbie. I'm aware that in the last one we've actually got Kyle and Carl. So we've potentially got some confusion there with names. But Deborah, if you're there, are you able to talk to us about the SCURL event that you've organised? Yes, I am. Can you hear me? Can you see me? We can hear you, definitely. We can't see you.  I've put the camera on, so hopefully you can all see me. So SCURL have organised a fair dealing coffee morning on the Thursday, the 24th of February from 10 to 11. So we're really delighted to welcome Debbie McDonald, who's the intellectual property manager at the British Council. Debbie has kindly agreed to deliver a 20 to 25 minute presentation around the challenges of using UK copyright exceptions outside the UK, along with assessing the associated risk and best practice. This will be followed by a Q&A, along with further discussion around fair dealing and the UK copyright exceptions with panel members and attendees. So you can sign up for that event at the SCURL website. And when registering for the event, you'll be sent a link with a short MS form prior to the event starting. So this form will allow you to highlight any circumstances where you've used copyright exceptions and any discussion points that you'd like to raise. Now, it's optional to provide your name, but if you do decide to provide your name or you can and particularly if you want to discuss these topics more at the event. So we're hoping people will make use of the form because it will give us a basis for discussions and give a good opportunity to discuss fair dealing in an open and safe environment. The sessions intended to be informal and the recording that we're making will only be used for note taking. This is really to encourage open discussion between participants on their experience of using fair dealing or if you have any questions around using the legal framework. Hopefully we're hoping that the output from the event will be a blog entry, which will capture the themes of the discussion. So that's really the base of the event and I've encouraged people to to sign up. Thank you very much, Deborah. I mean, it's going to be a really, really valuable on this. We've heard Debbie speak at these events before. She's part of our gang. She's got a really interesting perspective because of that role that British Council dealing with or working with people right across the world. And it's a question that we get asked all the time, isn't it, in the copyright world? Well, how does it work if I'm in the UK and I'm putting something on the Internet and then people are accessing it all around the world and you're kind of sometimes really they're OK. They're expecting a couple of sentences, aren't they? That's going to explain the whole thing. And then you have to say, well, here we go. But having said that, Debbie is the person to talk us through that and to answer the questions and work through things in practice. So I think it's just fantastic that you've got how lined up to do it and really great to see this girl continuing to put together really, really great events that are really, you know, delivering an awful lot of helpful advice and information to people. Absolutely. Deborah, did you want to say anything about your a plug for your vacancy in your team to come work with you at all? Yes, I mean, I'm taking on the the manager role at Strathclyde from the start of April. So we have a vacancy for a copyright and licensing. That's fantastic. Yeah, so really, I would encourage anyone with experience of copyright law to apply. It's it's quite a varied role, dealing with all kinds of copyright inquiries and delivering training to staff and students and developing our guidance and training materials. So I've been at Strathclyde for three and a half years and I've enjoyed working there, hence staying on in this promoted role. So it would be great if we get lots of applicants. Excellent, excellent. Yes. And also just to add to that, Deborah, in your background and having worked for just Legal, a really fantastic person to work with, if for anyone that's lucky enough to get that role and to be able to build that capacity within your university and then work across the sector. So it's it's really great news, as I said before. Thank you. No worries. OK, let's go back. So we have another event as well, don't we? We do have another event going on during Fair Use Week. I am just selecting Fair Use, Fair Dealing Week. That's not going to get confusing or annoying at all, is it? So we have this event happening on Wednesday at 5 p.m., 5 p.m., 6.30, Creative Reuse at Kent, the University of Kent. So I've got colleagues of mine joining me to talk through what happens, what has happened in practice at the University of Kent. So we've got Professor Richard Reese is going to kick us off. He's the chair of our Copyright Steering Group. He's been very involved in copyright matters. He was at Manchester before he came to Kent. So he kind of slightly got lumbered with the role of life. But actually, he is really interested and has been really strongly supportive of the work we've been doing. Dr. Richard Misak, who's the next face next to Richard R. He is a documentary filmmaker, as well as a senior lecturer in film and media studies at the university. So, Jane, you can drop in the chat. Can you the copyright waffle we did with Richard? That's a really fascinating one. I can, yes. Because he's going to talk to us all about reuse. He reuses other people's content in his own films all the time and, in fact, has a real interest in copyright law and how it acts as sometimes a barrier to creativity, what interesting ways and provocations as well. Sometimes that he does towards copyright law in his work. So that's going to be fantastic to hear from him. Dr. Alex Kovachi is a lecturer in digital arts and specialism in virtual reality. So I've been doing some teaching guest lecturing with her students to use the copyright card game when we teach with Alex. So she's going to be talking to us about that teaching. How do they prepare students for futures, digital, digital, artistic and similar innovative jobs in the industry and how do they get their heads around intellectual property and how do we support them at the university? And then last but not least on the bill is Dr. Ben Marsh of the Marsh family, the Internet Sensations, who came shots to fame in the first lockdown with their parody versions of songs to keep our spirits up. And Jane and I did another copyright waffle podcast interview with Ben last year. So what we're doing here is we're basically following up on that conversation. What's the latest? What's happened? And it'll be really interesting to see how his experiences with relying on fair dealing or perhaps not being able to rely on fair dealing because of the the realities of how YouTube operate and how the platforms operate, but also seeing his development from having been someone who was who was a remixer and a paradist is now someone who's actually an established content creator and has other people wanting to reuse his work. So that's going to be a fascinating insight from him. And we would hope there will be some element of musical something or other, but we'll have to wait and see for the day to see how that all pans out. But I'm really, really looking forward to that session. And there's the the slide here is this is me and Jane talking to Ben. So that's the plug for that. He's such a nice guy as well, isn't he? He's lovely. Oh, he's he's he's brilliant. Yeah, he's really great. He's he's he's a lovely guy. He's a very I mean, his eminent background. He's he's a historian. So, you know, you and him have got lots of history nerding. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. There's just there is one other event that's happening during Fair Dealing Week that is being organised primarily for universities who are in the London area. It's being put on by the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange. So there's not actually a booking link for that. If you do want to go along, I've just popped the details in the chat. You need to send an email to Sarah Sherman, who is the manager of the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange. But we're going to be having a panel discussion. That is also, I believe, on Thursday, the 24th of February in the afternoon. So it's the same day as the Skull Event, but it's it's later in the afternoon. Chris and I are going to be joining a panel. I believe that Sam Ahern, who's with us from UCL, will also be joining us and Stephen Penton, Copyright Librarian at City University. So we should be having a lively discussion. And it's very informal, open to anyone who wants to come along. So if you're not part of the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange and you are interested, if you just drop an email to Sarah Sherman and she will make sure you get an invite to that. So I think that's it of all our events, isn't it? I think that's the events. Is there an event we've forgotten about? Is someone sitting there thinking, how I've done all this work and I told you all about it and you left me off the list? Is there anyone or have we have we fully covered everything that we know that's happening? If anybody does at this point want to put on an event, it's probably a bit late, but feel free because it's it's it's you just put whatever it is you're doing, even if it's not an event. If it's just something you're doing, something you're planning on doing and raising awareness in your institution, you can go to the fairuseweek.org website and you can register it there. I think the more we can do to demonstrate that this is an area that we are all behind, I think the more we would get some critical mass to raise awareness. Yeah, and just a reminder as well, if you do want a link that's got all the events that we've just talked about a moment ago, we did a blog post about that just earlier this week. And so if you go to the get set for a fair deal in week, you will find the booking links for all the different events Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at University of Kent, the Skirl event and the the BLE event. So has anyone got any we've got a bit of time, has anyone got any questions, anything that they'd like to ask about either the events or about, you know, some of the challenges of promoting fair dealing? Just wondering. Yeah, because I was I was going to say if you can put those links as wide as you can in your own networks, yes, but is there any anything anyone wanted to comment on about their experiences of trying to raise awareness of this? I know sometimes copyright isn't the easiest topic to get on the agenda. I've been very careful not to use copyright as the number one kind of headline thing when advertising our events at Kent to talk about creative reuse as being and how we do creative teaching and research and engagement. If no one's got anything to add, we could we can move on. But we do have it with we're doing very well for time today. We are. We are. Yeah. So Caroline, you've just had a question for a student asking if they can rely on fair use for images in their thesis. So is that the word in they use specifically as well, Caroline? Yeah. OK, yeah. It's something I want to pick up on the panel discussion, actually. When I I've asked this question, we've had discussions about this in the past, you know, you can't use fair use when you're not under American law because fair use is American concept. But sometimes we find ourselves going through certain steps. We do think about fair dealing and of course we do that all the time. But when you think about it in that global context, and again, it'll be interesting to see if Debbie's got some thoughts on this because of the power of American tech companies and publishing companies. Sometimes it's kind of useful to have an awareness of fair use in the back of your mind, even when you're thinking through a fair dealing question. I'm going to pose that question to Emily and Kyle and see what their thoughts are about that. Because strictly speaking, no, of course, you don't apply fair use if you're talking about a UK based author in a UK based institution, putting something in a primarily UK based repository or whatever. But fair use has quite a lot of influence, I think, on way people think about things. So that's a thought that's in my mind. It's also one of the things I'm thinking about, Chris, is whether somebody comes to you with a question like that. Is this a kind of teachable moment? Is it the time they kind of want to know whether they can put the image in their thesis in some ways? And they probably heard about the concept of fair use. So do you use it as an opportunity to kind of explain to them? Well, of course, fair use doesn't apply in the UK. And but we have a similar concept and it's called fair dealing.  So there probably is a way they can put an image in their thesis and rely on a copyright exception. But it's just how far you kind of labour the point.  It doesn't apply in the UK, but we do have something similar. But, you know, I think at that point, what you don't want to do is floor them with a sort of, you know, I'm now going to go into the huge amount of detail about the difference between US and UK law. So, you know, I'm I'm I'm sort of I think I would be inclined to say something Caroline to obviously explain the fair use is an American concept. But, you know, the kind of in answer to their question about can they do this? Yes, they probably can under, you know, an exception, such as quotation or illustration for instruction.  If it's a student that's working in a kind of creative area, then they may want to know more about how copyright works. They may that may be all they want to know that, but, you know, for some, I think some students, you know, it might kind of intrigue them. They might say, oh, I hadn't really realised about this. That's a much more helpful answer than the one I gave. I think it was a bit wafty. Yeah, not a full essay on the topic. Well, you were preoccupied with your bread. We could see what you were up. You could see me operate. I think that's what it's looking like. Oh, it's looking. It's looking doughy. It's doughy. It's beginning of its bulk fermentation process. So very nice. Simon's got an event. Simon, you've got your event at the top of the list, you say, at UWA. Do you want to do you want to come on and tell us a bit about what you're up to? Oh, no worries. OK, leap leap of the dark. I mean, I think, yeah, it's when you're trying something new, not quite sure how it's going to go. And I think we we said at the beginning of this, we want to try to get the ball rolling, but we don't need to actually be involved in all the events. And it appears now that we are involved in most of them, which is great, actually. And we're really, really pleased. Only this year. Only this year. But I think I think if we can just see what happens here, I think what we've got here is quality rather than quantity. I mean, I think we've got some really great things. So I think that's that's going to be really good. Yes. OK, so should we get the slides up? We're into we're into the final straight now, aren't we? Absolutely. Yeah. So I am on my way to talking about what's coming up in future webinars. Yeah. So we've got we've got some really good webinars lined up, haven't we? Next slide. Next one, Mark. Roxanne and Eleanor from the University of Arts, London. This is going to be brilliant. Roxanne is excellent and she is she used a bit of the V&A and then moved to the University of the Arts, London in this role, which is working with design students, art students and talking to them about intellectual property and helping them understand how it impacts on their careers, whilst also looking at some of the bigger, meatier questions about what it means. So that's going to be a fantastic session. Absolutely. Copyright People's Journeys. That's a well funny way of putting it, Chris, but anyway, we did a really popular session last year where we had three copyright specialists. We had Kate Vassili, we had Simon Cox and we had Hannah Pyman talk about becoming a copyright specialist. And we would like to put out a call early on for other speakers who might want to come and join the session on the 15th of April and maybe tell their story. And it is about becoming, it is a journey. So it isn't about being a copyright specialist. So whatever kind of level you feel like your knowledge is at, we really like to hear from you. We have one speaker, I think, already who's confirmed that they are happy to do it, who is very new to the copyright world. But we confirmed or we're in discussions at the moment. But yes, thinking about it. OK, I'm not saying I'm not saying any more. I'm not letting me cut out the back. But yeah, if anyone else feels the urge to tell their story and it can be as much or as little about copyright as you want. So if you remember Kate's journey into copyright, it was it was a fantastic kind of rundown of some of her career, wasn't it, and how she ended up accidentally almost becoming Middlesex Copyright Advisor and Hannah and Simon as well. It was really good to hear from all three of them. So we're looking forward to that one. And that's going to be a regular feature. We just think this is this is kind of what we want to be doing, is is definitely to know each other better. How do we get here and how much the kind of diverse perspective is all help us if we if we come from different backgrounds? So that's great. It's always in the IPO confirm, aren't we? I think we're going to be talking in May. We're hoping about a big, big job to do, putting together all the stuff with this framework. So we're kind of waiting for them. But they have they have agreed they will come and talk to us. And maybe they'll be the license updates as ever. If you have any topics that you want to discuss, please let us know. We're not fully booked up. We do have a schedule for the year that we want to make sure we've kind of got people lined up. So there we are. Just to say, Roxanne has got. Are you going to play the song when she comes on? Because she knows she really likes people doing that. No, we've had that discussion and then we're going to do that. Although I did I was going to play bass along to it. Wasn't I? That's the thing. Anyway, that's that's. But this is this is the piece that that Roxanne wrote about what she's doing in this area. So you might want to read that. But of course, if you tune in next month, you'll get the full thing directly from her. And I don't know that she's she's been working with. Excellent. Excellent. Well, that leaves us with time for we've got something a bit special now. Haven't we? You know, we have this. You know that we have the one last thing as a standing agenda item. Now we've got to put a bit of effort into it this time around. So please don't leave now. And in fact, if you just give me a moment, I will eventually get myself sorted to swap over. Attention is mounting. Attention is mounting. Where this is going is that we know how much people love Chris's jingles and the Chris has been in jingle heaven. Haven't you? You've been very busy here. So we have a one last thing jingle. Hopefully the sound will be shared. This is a brief that they gave me. So let's see. Did I do well? Are you going to tell them what the brief was? Well, OK, it was it was kind of musical power ballot, wasn't it? It was 1980s inspired bit Winnie Houston.  Take it away. Oh, well, it all comes to its end. And we know you have to go. You only set aside enough for this. But there's one more gift we'd like to bestow. We do. Which stands on its way back. One last thing. One last thing. Have a moment. Look at it. It's something magic there. Something magic. Yes, OK. I think the talents are wasted on jingles. You think they're wasted on jingles?  Well, I saw where you're segwaying. You're segwaying. Greater things. No, the one last thing. It's about as many of you know, I work at the University of Kent. I will have worked at the University of Kent 10 years this October. I joined in 2012. I am actually moving on from the University of Kent. And as of the end of April, I will be taking up the post of copyright and licensing specialist and the Fortnian libraries and the University of Oxford working for Ruth Maloney, the fabulous Ruth. Now, is Ruth on the call today? Did she? I don't think she is. I'm not sure she is. She's very, very busy. She's got lots of things to do. And that's why she's employing someone else. She's missing the copyright specialist. So just wanted to let you all know that. I mean, this is this is, I think, going to continue to give me the opportunity to do this sort of thing and to work with everyone across the whole sector and raise the profile of copyright and put it into all those different areas. We know tricky questions, not straightforward answers. I'm still going to be here.  I'm still going to be in Canterbury, going to Oxford where necessary. So it's one of those kind of hybrid remote and on premise type of arrangements. So yeah, interesting. It's fantastic news. So you've got lots of lovely messages there. I think at this moment, you might need to just play that jingle again. I think this is the moment to just play it one last time.  And then if anyone wants to come on and have a chat, then that would be lovely. We'll play it one last time and then I will stop the recording after that and people can have a chat with you. But yes, it's super exciting and really hoping Chris that in this role, you know, you will provide real leadership for the sector. We're expecting great things. Or at least some cheesy novelty jingles at the very least. Absolutely. Yes, yes. I have to go. You only set aside enough for this, but there's one more gift we'd like to bestow. Much times on its way back last week. Wasn't that great? Now people feel free to leave.


Thank you very much for the little introduction. Well, I'm Manigarh. I'm working with Stefano Berti, Enrico Calzverni, and Gilmar Montpia. And today, I would like to discuss about the transport properties of particles in elastic turbulent flows. So in my first few slides, I'll give the motivation behind our work. And in further slides, the introduction to the phenomenology of elastic turbulence, and then finally results in the conclusion part. As you know, that mixing in small size container is very interesting from research point of view and can be relevant to many industrial applications. For example, by engineering devices like lab on a chip, or cooling of computer chips using fluid flow, or manure micro heat exchangers. But it raises a fundamental question. That is how to introduce mixing in these small size containers when it is not possible to increase the Reynolds number. One of the possibility is to resort to the Reynolds, to viscoelastic flows. It has been observed that these viscoelastic flows can introduce nonlinearities in the system, even in the limit of vanishing Reynolds number. By involving another control parameter, that is known as Weisenberg number, which accounts for the polymers elasticity. And these type of nonlinearities can provide us many promising microfluidic applications. A model system, which has these type of elastic property, is known as elastic turbulence. It was experimentally discovered in 2000 by Victor Steinbar and Alexander Grosma. They choose a very simple geometrical setup in their experiments. It was a rotating disc. The lower disc was kept fixed, and the upper was rotating. What they are observing in their experiment, with the addition of the polymer, there was onset of these elastic instabilities. And the transition from the laminar to the chaotic random flow. You can see the snapshot of the flow here. It's not laminar, even when the Reynolds is 0.7. We are in a laminar regime. But the flow has some turbulent structures. And in this turbulent like regime, the velocity spectra is characterized with the power law decay with an exponent, which is much greater than 3. This is similar to what we observe in higher in all turbulent flows. However, the spectra is much steeper. The flow is specially smooth flow. And in their experiments involving different geometries, they observe that elastic turbulence can be proposed as an efficient technique for mixing in microfluidic flows. Also, some of the applications studied recently emphasis is the fact that elastic turbulence can not be only used to enhance mixing in microfluidic channel flows, but can also be used as an efficient heat exchanger or to form emulsifications from immiscible liquids and to extract oil and the gases from the porous structures of the rocks. This is something that interested us a lot. An illustration to such kind of work can be seen as the extraction of the shale gas or just sorry, or oil extraction from the porous rocks. What exactly is happening in US? People are extracting the shale gas from the porous rocks, their thin structures. It is not possible by using a laminar flow. So what they do, they use a mixture of water with the polymers. So we are in a regime of where we have the onset of the elastic instabilities. So we have the onset of this elastic turbulence and this way they extract this oil and the gases from this porous rocks. The question of interest here is the absence of the laboratory clean conditions. In the absence of the laboratory clean conditions, there is a presence of solid impurities, sand dust particles, or maybe chemical additives. So the question is what the point of interest. These impurities may sediment along these thin porous structures of the rocks. As you can see, we have very thin porous structures. These impurities may distribute along these structures and reduce the efficiency of extraction of these gases and the oil. So it is really important and necessary to understand how these solid impurities distribute in elastic turbulent flow. And to achieve this purpose, we study the transport of inertial particles by means of DNS of elastic turbulence. And to observe the phenomenology of elastic turbulence numerically, a model was proposed in 2008 by Stefano Berti and collaborators. The model is based on Aldroid B model for viscoelastic fluids with a Kolmogorov forcing. And with a periodic boundary conditions, the Kolmogorov forcing here corresponds to a parallel flow. And what do we observe in our numerics that beyond a certain value of Weisenberg number, there is an onset of elastic instability. If you look at this instantaneous snapshot of vorticity field in this elastic turbulence regime, the flow is not laminar even when the Reynolds is 0.62. We have some turbulent-like features. And we also show here a velocity spectra, which is characterized by a power law decay with an explained greater than 3, which is similar to what we observe in our experiments. One thing to be keep in mind as our flow is especially smooth flow, so we have typically one time scale. Our viscoelastic Kolmogorov flow can be characterized by the mean profiles. Here, I show you the two profiles which are relevant. This represent my mean base flow, whereas this profile represents the transversal component of the velocity fluctuations. The important thing that we would like to highlight here, the origin of these fluctuations is purely elastic. There is no inertial effect, so if I do not have polymers in my flow, these fluctuations will be 0. And wherever you see these symbols, it means the averages along the direction of the homogeneity and the time. And please keep in mind these profiles because I'll use them to anticipate my results later on. So now, let me allow me to introduce you the dynamics of the impurities that is inertial particles I consider in my flow. We consider the heavy inertial particles whose have a density much greater than the density of the fluid. We assume that the particles are spherical in shape and small as compared to the relevant time scale of the flow. So under these assumptions, one can use this Maxwell equations for describing the dynamics of the inertial particles. And here we consider only the hydrodynamical drags on the particle, which is known as the Stokes drag represented by this parameter tau p. And in this simulation, u is coming from the DNS of elastic turbulence. For a result and analysis part, we can make profit of the studies performed in the context of high Reynolds turbulent flows, where this study that the particles can aggregate in certain regions of the flow and the size of these aggregations or these clusters vary from small scales to the large scales. Hence, we have small scale clustering and the large scale clustering. The mechanism behind these two different processes is completely different. But in any case, the parameter which characterizes this clustering is always defined as a ratio between the Stokes drag and the relevant time scale of the flow. Generally, what happens in high Reynolds turbulent flows? For small scale clustering, the relevant time scale of the flow is chosen to be the dissipative time scale. Whereas for the large scale clustering, it is chosen to be the relevant largest time scale of the flow. But as I told earlier, we are in a scenario. We do not have an error of time scales. We just have one typical time scale of the flow. So for the moment, we decided to fix it as tau gamma dot mean, which is computed from the averages of the strain rate. So from here on, I would like to start discussing the results part. First of all, I would like to discuss the small scale clustering. The small scale clustering is due to the dissipative and the chaotic dynamics of the inertial particles. With the evolution of the time, the particles evolve, and it tends on to the fractal sets. And these fractal sets can be characterized by many fractal dimensions. The one we choose here is an easy and simple approach, which is the correlation dimension d2. And thanks to Grassberg-Precocci algorithm. And what we observe, if you look at this curve, we compute the correlation dimension d2 as a function of stokes. And we found that the maximum of the fractal clustering, which corresponds to the minimum of d2, occurs around stokes is equals to 1. And if you look at this colorful, beautiful snapshot, this represents the instantaneous snapshot of the vorticity field, where the black dots represents the instantaneous special distribution of the particles. We saw that the particles are aligned along these thin filamentary structures presented in my flow. And here, this snapshot corresponds to the case where we have the maximum clustering, that is this point, where we have the dimension around 1. Now the question arises, what happens at large scales, and what do we expect? There have been some studies performed in the context of atmospheric boundary layers and wall-wounded flows, where they observe that at large scales, particles have that tendency to accumulate from high turbulence intensity regions towards the low turbulence intensity regions. And they show that it is a wall presence phenomenon. But recently, this also has been studied in high-enol turbulent Kolmogorov flows, where they show that it can happen also even in the absence of the walls. So we are in a scenario where we do not have walls, and we were interested to see if such kind of large scale inhomogeneities are present in our flow or not. There are several possibilities to answer this question. One of the possibilities is to look at average density profiles of the particles along the direction of the inhomogeneities of the flow. And in our case, the inhomogeneities are present along the transversal, that is the y direction. We looked for these density profiles for approximately 36 values of the stocks, but I showed here just for two values. And these red dots represents my density profiles along the direction of the inhomogeneities of the flow. And we see, yes, there is a presence of large scale inhomogeneities in elastic turbulent flows. And this black curve, sorry, line, this represents a fitting function, which was suggested by recent studies done by Delilo in the context of high-enol turbulent Kolmogorov flow. So we saw, OK, they fit our data pretty well. And then we looked at turbophoresis from another possibility. That is observing the observable key, which accounts for the deviations from the uniform distribution of the particles. This key is a sort of an amplitude. And what we observe, this key first increases as a function of stokes. And it reaches a maximum value. And then it starts decreasing. And again, if you look back to this colorful snapshot of vorticity with the particle distribution over it, what do we observe? That the particles are clustered in certain regions of the flow. Also, they are modulated with the large scale modulation, which is twice of our mean flow. If you correctly remember the profiles that I showed you before for the fluid. So what do we understand till now? In our elastic turbulent flows, there is a presence of large scale inhomogeneities. That is, the particles are accumulating in a regions where we have less turbulence intensity. So if you look at this profile of transversal velocity fluctuations, so you expect that the particles will more particles will be in the regions where my arrows are pointing. That is the regions where we have less velocity fluctuations. However, the relation between the density profiles and the velocity fluctuations is not so linear. But based on some available theories, we can they show that they are related with an exponent alpha. We try to see how it fits with the data. So here, I show again density profile fitting with this prediction for two different value of the stokes. And we found they match pretty well for some fractional value of these exponents. However, this comparison fits pretty well for the small values of the stokes. The reason is, as we are increasing the stokes, we are moving towards stokes around one. We have the presence of the small scale clustering, because it's dominating. So it results the deviation from the uniform sinusoidal profile. The one thing that could be interesting is to know what is the value of this exponent alpha. Is it stokes dependent or is it constant? What exactly it is? We computed the value of the alpha using least care analysis. And we found it is also sort of an amplitude. And its behavior is similar to key. And it increases first increase in stokes. It reaches a maximum. And then it starts decreasing. The question is, how to interpret this behavior? Can we? The answer is obviously yes. There are several possibilities. Either you use a hydrodynamical approach to find the expression for the alpha, or you use a probabilistic approach. So there are some theories available in the context of high renal turbulent flows. I will not go through the derivation part. So we have the expressions for the alpha. And there are some improvements which are also validated recently by Theoretical Wiff by S. Bellan. And they say this is another expression for alpha. And we try to see how it fits with our numerical data. And here are the comparison of these two different predictions with our value of alpha. And we see it doesn't fit our data pretty well. Until unless we reshift our x-axis, reshifting our x-axis means what? We have to reinterpret our stokes. Reinterpretation of stokes means the value of the relevant timescale that we have chosen, that is tau gamma dot mean, is not the appropriate value of the timescale, which relates to these large scale in homogeneities. This is an open question and something interesting to investigate. But somehow we had an idea this timescale might be related to the presence of small filamentary structures in our flow. If you look at this snapshot, so we decided to look at the instantaneous snapshot of the strain rate fields. This is the instantaneous snapshot of the strain rate field. And you see there are the presence of these certain small filamentary structures. These are the regions where the strain rate is maximally concentrated. And we also looked at the y-profiles of these instantaneous snapshots of the strain rate field. If anybody wants, I can show them later on. I do not have in my slides. There we conclude that the local timescale varies over the range 0.0121, which it makes it very evident that our choice for the tau gamma dot mean, which is based on the average of the strain rate, is not a good approximation. So we have to look for a relevant timescale, which is the most valued value of the tau gamma dot. So we looked at the PDF of tau gamma dot, which is computed by averaging over 85 independent snapshots of the strain rate fields. And we choose the most valued value of this tau gamma dot, which corresponds to value 0.02. And we represent it as tau gamma dot peak. So now we reinterpret our stokes based on this new value of this relevant timescale of the flow. Now it's represented by capital S t, which is tau gamma dot tau p divided by tau gamma dot peak. And we looked at our results, they fit pretty well. And we are happy with the results, at least. But there is still more to investigate, because this is something we had an idea that there is a presence of these timescales. But there is a large theory devoted to these presence of small filament structures that is related to the width of the boundary layers and something. But we are still investigating this question. At last I would like to discuss the Weisenberg dependency for both small and the last scale clustering. And here I represent this computation of d2 for as a function of stokes for multiple values of Weisenberg number. And we see there is a very weak dependency of this d2 as a function of Weisenberg number. And this maximum of d2 occurs for stokes around 1. What about the large scale clustering? We observed that there is a rather weak dependency when the Weisenberg is large enough. There might be some interesting features at the smaller Weisenberg number near the range where we have this threshold instabilities. But for larger Weisenberg number, it has a very weak dependency. At last I would like to conclude my work. In our elastic turbulent flows, we have a presence of small scale clustering, which is due to the dissipative and chaotic dynamics of the particles. There is also presence of the phenomenon turbophoresis, which accounts for the large scale in homogeneities. And this is induced due to the local variations of the turbulent intensity. And the function alpha as a function of the stokes, this exponent alpha, which accounts for turbophoresis, can be well described by the theories available in the context of high-reign old turbulent flows. One thing that I forgot to tell you that these models are validated only for small particles, not for the large size particles. And there is the maximum of this large and the small scale clustering occurs for similar value of tau p. And there is a very weak Weisenberg dependency for both small and the large scale clustering. In the future, we are willing to understand or to discuss the quantitatively that this turbophoresis for large size particles. And it's possible also understanding of this polymer statistics along the particle trajectories. Thank you. Yes? Yes. And they showed that the material particles, the tails in the sensitive. Yes. So that means that the dissipation of the small scale filaments in front of particles is most important. Which gives us these results. Yes. And also, we found it experimentally. Yes? Yes. I'll try to think about it. It's because of the elastic forcing. As you can see, we have this elastic forcing, which accounts for these turbulent fluctuations in our flow. It has something similar feature to Kolmogorov spectra, but not exactly. The spectra is much steeper than the Kolmogorov one. That's why we have a specially smooth flow. It's something similar to bachelor's regime. Turbulence, actually, you have a laminar flow. When you add polymers, due to the backstretching of the polymers, you have these turbulent-like states. It's not inertial. When you add polymers, they backstretch. And due to their back effects on the flow, that's why you have these turbulent-like features. It's not a turbulent flow, but it's something similar to turbulent flow.


So look, Obergefell, like Roe versus Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation's history. Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states. We saw states before Obergefell that were moving.  Other states were moving to allow civil partnerships. There were different standards that the states were adopting. And had the court not ruled in Obergefell, the democratic process would have continued to operate that if you believed gay marriage was a good idea, the way the Constitution set up for you to advance that position is to convince your fellow citizens. And if you succeeded in convincing your fellow citizens, then your state would change the laws to reflect those views. In Obergefell, the court said, no, we know better than you guys do. And now every state must sanction and permit gay marriage. I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided. It was the court overreaching. Whether the court will reverse it, I will say so in Dobbs, what the Supreme Court said is Roe is different because it's the only one of the cases that involves the taking of a human life. And that's qualitatively different. I agree with that proposition. That was Senator Ted Cancun Cruz on his YouTube show, suggesting that the Supreme Court should indeed overturn Obergefell the Hodges, which for those of you who don't know is the landmark 2015 Supreme Court case that said states are not allowed to ban same sex marriages. Now, he's right to point out that in his majority opinion, Alito claimed that the precedent from the Dobbs case where they overturned Roe v. Wade was constrained to the issue of abortion. The problem is that that was nothing more than a transparent attempt to placate people who were rightfully concerned that the Supreme Court would take a hatchet to other civil rights that we fought for and want. Now, in his concurring opinion, Thomas was actually pretty honest. And he said, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell, which by the way is contraception, gay intimacy and marriage equality, respectively. And he adds, because any substantive due process decision is demonstrably erroneous, we have a duty to correct the error established in those precedents.  These were not rights that were explicitly enumerated in the Constitution. They were essentially found within the due process clause. And since we were able to strike down abortion as a constitutional right, since that too was not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, then it logically follows that we should also be able to do the same to contraception, gay intimacy and marriage equality. So Ted Cruz is wrong here. And I think that what he's trying to do is stagger the outrage. Now, what I mean by that is, you know, if everyone finds out that not only are they losing the right to an abortion, but contraception, marriage equality all at once, that might be too much outrage and might destabilize the country. But if you kind of let people know that they no longer have the right to an abortion and then you wait a year or two and then you take away another civil right, then perhaps the anger from the last issue will have died down. And you know, you kind of just give them a drip feed of losing civil rights and civil liberties, and that's kind of the way to maintain social order, I think. But Ted Cruz is saying here, I don't think that the Supreme Court is going to do this, but in actuality, he knows that this is indeed what they're going to do. They will overturn marriage equality, and that's what he wants them to do. Now, he wrongly stated that marriage was always an issue left to the states until Obergefell v. Hodges. But he's leaving out a really important case that disproves what he's saying. Loving the Virginia. That was the landmark Supreme Court ruling that established the right to interracial marriages. Yeah, that's also not a right explicitly enumerated in the Constitution. But, you know, ironically, Clarence Thomas didn't want to revisit that one because he himself is in an interracial marriage. But Ted Cruz is wrong to say, oh, well, marriage was always something that was left up to the states. Actually, no. The Supreme Court stated you were not allowed to ban marriages and deny couples marriage licenses on the basis of race. And because of Loving Virginia, the Supreme Court applied that same rationale to Obergefell to find that states also cannot deny marriage licenses on the basis of sex or sexual orientation or gender identity. Now, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there are currently five hundred forty three thousand married same sex couples and another four hundred sixty nine thousand same sex couples who may one day choose to get married. Now, if those hundreds of thousands of marriages are abolished, they lose access to a plethora of federal benefits, including tax incentives, social security, immigration benefits, federal employment benefits like health care. I mean, the list goes on. So the federal government has and always will be inextricably linked to marriages because without the federal government, we couldn't get these federal benefits as a result of our marriages. There are state and federal benefits. So Ted Cruz, he knows this. This is somebody who went to law school, but he's being purposefully deceitful here because he wants to make it seem as if like abortion, marriage equality is another another state's rights issue. You know, you can have certain states have marriage equality. That's fine, according to Ted Cruz. But you know, if the state wants to ban it, that's fine. Now, what's interesting is that in his state, you know that they would be a state that would indeed ban marriage equality. They want to ban day intimacy. Lawrence v. Texas, that stemmed from a law in Texas that banned gay couples from being intimate. But what's really disgusting and shows how craving Ted Cruz is, is that he wants to take away a crucial civil right from his own daughter. Because, yes, Ted Cruz's daughter recently came out as bisexual and stated that she disagrees with her far right father. So imagine being so craving that for political purposes, you vocalize your desire to see a case that won a crucial civil right for your daughter overturned. That is despicable.  That's Ted Cruz. That's who Ted Cruz is, a despicable individual. Now, I don't think I've ever said anything nice about the British monarchy on this program. But Prince Harry, he spoke before the U.N. and he and this was on Nelson Mandela Day and he said something really, really important about what we're seeing globally, a trend towards authoritarianism. And he name dropped the United States specifically for taking away civil rights. Let's watch. How many of us feel battered, helpless in the face of the seemingly endless stream of disasters and devastation? I understand. This has been a painful year in a painful decade. We're living through a pandemic that continues to ravage communities in every corner of the globe. Climate change wreaking havoc on our planet with the most vulnerable suffering, most of all. The few weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense of the many. And from the horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional rights here in the United States, we are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom. And that right there is exactly how this should be characterized. The GOP is waging an all out assault, not just on democracy, but freedom. It's not just about gay intimacy. It's not just about same sex marriages. It is about freedom. You see some states trying to ban gender, affirming care, form trans youth. And we're talking about just letting children socially transition if their parents allow that. So they want to restrict the way that people express themselves. That's a First Amendment. Right. Gender expression falls under the First Amendment. We're seeing very popular far right pundits like Jordan Peterson and Matt Walsh say that they don't believe trans people, even trans adults, should be allowed to transition. They shouldn't be allowed the freedom to transition. Live and let live. No, we want to control what people do with their bodies, how they express themselves. You have rising stars in the GOP. Fascists like Ron DeSantis banning books, citing critical race theory. So we are seeing an all out assault on freedom. And this is happening in the broader context of an assault on democracy. It's not just civil rights and civil liberties being rolled back by the GOP. But we're seeing the decline of democracy because of lies spread about the election with Donald Trump and the Trump wing of the Republican Party and even the Supreme Court with Morvey Harper. That's the case that I've talked about that could be the end of democracy in the United States. And it's not like we have a functioning democracy to begin with. But what's left of it goes the way of the dodo. If the Supreme Court affirms the legitimacy of independent state legislature theory, I've done a video on that. I'm not going to talk about that here, but we are witnessing an all out assault on civil rights and freedom. And the GOP are the ones that are waging this war on our freedoms. So any person till this day that supports the GOP as they wage a war on freedom, take that as an attack on your civil rights, on your civil liberties and confront them about this, correct them about this, get them to understand that this doesn't just mean that gay people and people who want to have abortions are losing their rights. They're going to lose their rights, too. It's not just minorities and marginalized people who lose their rights. Everyone loses their rights as democracy declines. So this is really despicable and people like Ted Cruz, who know better, are choosing to go along with the death of our democracy with the decline of civil rights, even if he has a daughter, who this is going to impact in a negative way. It's truly despicable, but this is the modern GOP where they put their own careers and political ambitions above civil rights, basic human rights. It's despicable, but this is what we've come to expect.


I'll take my martini, shaken, not stirred. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. I have held onto that mug for this joke for that long. Hey guys, this is my review for No Time to Die, the latest James Bond film starring Daniel Craig. And this is a film that we've literally had over a year to wait for. Originally it was supposed to come out in April of last year, but obviously due to COVID, it was heavily delayed. Now we finally have it. This film, once again, finds James Bond kind of going rogue, slash living on his own again. It's very much akin to kind of how Skyfall started, but then he is obviously pulled back in when he is reintroduced to Madeleine and the connection she has with Spectre as well as a mysterious character played by Rami Malik who has a pretty basic but pretty devastating idea of what to do with the world and global nomination and blah, blah, blah. A lot of people were really getting into speculation about any kind of SJW stuff kind of being affected in this movie. The idea of Bond as a female character, a lot of that, if not all of that is completely absent from this movie. It definitely played into that whole controversy sort of idea to get people interested in the movie. Unfortunately it didn't work because the film did have to be delayed, but it definitely got people talking about it. Any kind of publicity is good publicity. Look at the GTA games for that example as they thrive off of this stuff. Movie itself is actually a pretty decent outing. I had just watched Spectre just before watching this and that's a movie that I would definitely change my review on. I gave that movie a four out of seven. It's actually quite rubbish. The whole movie's boring. It has a terrible Bond. He's an absolute psychopath in this movie and it's because of the issues of his character is very poorly established relationship with Madeleine as well as the introduction of Spectre that this movie, No Time to Die, is actually trying to make up for which does slightly affect it in a negative sense but considering it is trying to make up for the failings of the previous movie while trying to establish itself with its own assets and its new film explains why it's two hours and 47 minutes long. I think this is the longest Bond ever made. However, you do not feel it. The pacing in this movie is exceptionally well done. The editing is very good. I never checked my watch once. If anything, I actually wanted more from it. Positive to say for this movie, really enjoyed Daniel Craig's iteration of James Bond. He's definitely hearkening back to the elements that he had from Casino Real while also kind of adding in a little bit of the witticism that we would expect of the character but still having that range of emotions and connections with other characters in the film that we had grown to be used to with Daniel Craig which was so sorely absent from Spectre. So it's very nice to see that aspect back again. It also more so establishes his connections with the other parts of the team, especially M. His connection with M in this movie is a little bit deeper, not on the same length as Skyfall. I do like Craig and Fine's banter back and forth not only in terms of just humor but also in terms of M's connection to the overall bad guy plot which I very much enjoyed. But some of you probably are wondering, what about the Lee who plays the new 007 in this movie? LaShonna Lynch, she's not bad. Admittedly, I think they're trying to write her character at the beginning a little bit more overly irritating than she should be but I definitely did not find it anywhere near as irritating as a lot of other reviewers have said. I thought that she was actually pretty well placed especially with how she progresses throughout the film. In the end, she's actually a pretty good play on the entire controversy that everyone was talking about with her character in association to this film. They do make a good joke about 007 being just a number. That is true because what we have come to see with this series is that James Bond from Daniel Craig is an actual character. There is a reason why we have been continuing to watch his movies as much as we have is because he's given us something more than the other iterations did an actual character arc for the most part from most of the movies. The action in this film is pretty astounding. It starts off with a very good opener. Love the opener. The subsequent fight scenes that happened later on in this movie are pretty decent. Carrie, the director, he once again does a one shot very much akin to his work from True Detective as well as Beast of No Nation. It's not really an exceptional one. I think that Craig probably didn't want to do a long one. Craig doesn't like getting hurt in these movies which is understandable. He's broken a bone almost in every single one he's made and the music is pretty good. It's not like a super stellar kind of compilation from Hans Zimmer considering you would think that he would be offering something pretty extraordinary. He just pretty much does a good job. But are there issues with this movie? Certainly there are a few. Blofeldt's character is once again kind of he's in this movie. But again, trying to make up and finish off what was established in the previous movie while moving on to another whole new villain with Remy Malek in this movie. It kind of only gives you half the amount of time you would want with both of these characters which also leads me into my criticisms of Remy. He is not in this movie as much as he should be. I like his iteration of his character. He's a kind of a different version of Doctor No as not just in terms of the cultural aspect that seems to be of his character but also just his genuine outlook and his mannerisms. I just kind of wish there was more. There is a good conversation scene between Bond and him. It definitely hearkens to the old Bond talking to the bad guy and said the bad guy just straight up shooting him. Things we've gotten used to with the James Bond movies. I think there was a little bit more that could have definitely been done especially when there are a few unanswered questions especially with Blofeldt and with Remy. Do leave you hanging a little bit. One aspect that is definitely rectified in this movie though is Madeline. The film actually begins with a flashback with her and there's a reference to something that was actually straight from Specter. When she goes to get some cleaning tools from underneath the sink there is a bottle of bleach right next to a gun. Even though that movie sucks this movie still does a decent job of referencing it when it's useful.  I would definitely say it's better than Specter. It's better than Quantum of Solace but Quantum of Solace was a victim of circumstance being the writer strike. Is it as good as Skyfall? Well, when you go back and rewatch Skyfall it's essentially it's just dark night and the entire plan that Silva has is completely ridiculous but it's also shot by Roger Deakins and it's an absolutely beautiful movie to watch. This movie doesn't have Roger Deakins shooting it but it does have some decent cinematography. I can't really say. I'm gonna have to rewatch Skyfall to see. Otherwise no time to die I think is a good Bond outing. It definitely has an ending that would be talked about. I do feel that maybe there were some elements that could have had more establishment to them but the fact that this movie is near on three hours long and you don't feel it is a testament to itself. It's got some good action scenes, some decent music. I liked Billie Eilish's song. I thought that that was a good job too. And Daniel Craig does a great job of his character. He definitely redeems himself from Spectre and I think that he really kind of redeemed a lot of the aspects that we came to love about his character all the way back from Casino Royale. So in the end I am going to give no time to die a five out of seven. It's a pretty decent Bond outing. If this is the last one he does which I'm pretty certain this is the last one he's gonna do. It's a pretty decent swan song for him. I'm very curious to see what they will do further on because this film does end with the James Bond will return at the end throughout the credits. So I'm kind of interested to see where they go from here and what happens but they're gonna probably let the dust settle and let this movie make the money before any of that happens. Anyways guys I hope you enjoyed the review. If you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe otherwise see you guys next time.