Copyright compliance
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Sharing Resources with Students
What resources can be shared with students?
There are various types of resources we may wish to share with students – book chapters, journal articles, film clips etc. Sharing of information with students is often via Moodle, and this is governed by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA). It’s important to know what’s allowed.
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Short quotes and extracts – all types of copyright works, e.g. text, illustrations
| ‘Fair dealing’ for the purpose of ‘illustration for instruction’ permits lecturers to copy and display to students on the course of study brief or short extracts from literary, artistic and musical works, films, sound recordings and broadcasts, so long as: |
- the material is used to illustrate or reinforce a teaching point
- only what is reasonably required to illustrate or reinforce a teaching point is copied and displayed
- extracts from material provided under the illustration for instruction exception is limited to those students being instructed
- the material made available must not be made available to the public, e.g. made available online in a website or repository or social media
- original sources are cited unless to do so is impractical.
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Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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The University holds a Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Higher Education Licence, which permits lecturers and course administrators to provide each student enrolled on a particular course of study with photocopies or digital copies (scans or born-digital copies) of journal articles or book chapters from University or College Library collections. Digital copies can be distributed to enrolled students via photocopies, email, or more usually, by upload to a password-protected restricted intranet such as Moodle. |
There are certain conditions that must be met:
- Only students on the Course of Study for which the scans of book chapters and journal articles are provided are allowed access to and download of those materials.
- Study and research groups are not permitted to scan and upload materials under the CLA Licence.
- Materials not allowed for scanning under the CLA Licence include printed music and lyrics, maps, charts and newspapers.
- Digital Copies should not substitute for the purchase of an original published edition, i.e. text substitution (either print or electronic). This applies to PDFs, where the source file should be accessed directly.
- Digital Copies should not be stored, or systematically indexed, with the intention of creating an e-library.
- Digital Copies must not be made available on the publicly accessed Internet.
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Distribution of PDFs (e.g. research papers)
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Links to websites, including YouTube and other videos
You may provide a link to any publicly accessible page of any website, including links to the URLs of YouTube videos and other material legally available on the Internet, unless you suspect that the material posted on the site is infringing or otherwise unlawful.
Out-of-copyright material
- If copyright no longer subsists in a work, it is said to be in the ‘public domain’ and no permission is required to copy or use that work or quotations, extracts or excerpts from it, but the source must be acknowledged.
- According to UK copyright law, the standard term of copyright is to the end of the calendar year 70 years after the author’s death. However, the standard term does not always apply, notably for unpublished works that may be in copyright until the end of the calendar year 2039.
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Best to consult the following copyright duration charts:
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