Copyright

Briefly: **copyright protection is automatic**; a work does not need to be registered or display the copyright symbol to be protected by this law. Teachers are able to copy things under special licence and this varies for print, digital, artistic, performance and music materials. The prescribed notices are on display near our photocopiers. Please make sure that you read them and follow the guidelines. Generally speaking a teacher can copy: Please do not ask your library staff to break copyright as we will refuse to do it! This information is based on "Copyright, your questions answered" by Sylvi Saab printed in //Access// volume 23 Issue 2009 page 17-20 There are copyright free options out there. Try some of these. Australian animation on creative commons to show [|students] The Copyright Kitchen is a resource for those working in vocational education and training (VET) who deal with copyright issues in their day-to-day work. It breaks up copyright information into categories built around who you are, where you work and the task at hand @ [] Creative commons items are freely available without copyright restrictions. Regulations relating to scanning book covers to make booktrailers etc via email to OZTL_NET from Barbara Braxton 5/7/2011
 * Copyright** is a very important issue in teaching and it is every teacher's responsibility to work within the rules. These rules are complex and they do change, so the best advice is to refer to this one stop shop for all you need to know for schools and [|TAFE].
 * 10% of a literary work or 1 chapter of a text
 * 10% of words on a website, wiki, blog or CD rom
 * one article in a journal, or two if on the same subject matter

Teachers scanning book covers Teachers (inc teacher librarians) can scan book covers for use in digital presentations (including review blogs, slideshows and book trailers) under the Statutory Text and Artistic Works licence. These presentations must be for the educational purposes of the school, i.e. use in teaching, preparation for teaching, classroom/homework exercises, library resources to encourage reading and/or notify students of books available in library as well as professional development exercises. These digital presentations can also be uploaded to a content repository (e.g. school intranet, learning management system, class wiki or blog) provided access is password protected and limited to teachers and students of the school. A teacher cannot upload these digital presentations containing the scanned book covers to content repositories available to the public. If they wish to do this, they will need to seek the permission of the copyright owner (illustrator/s and/or publisher). This will involve contacting the copyright owner in writing and outlining exactly what you wish to do with the book cover, e.g. scan book cover to include in presentation that is placed online (state whether website, wiki and/or blog) and accessible to the public. The copyright owner will need to agree to allow the teacher to do this before the teacher can proceed. See the Smartcopying website at: [] for information on how to seek permission from copyright owners. Students scanning book covers Students can scan book covers to include in digital representations and upload these representations on a password protected repository as part of their classroom or homework under fair dealing for study and research. Students should attribute the copyright owner of the book cover (illustrator/s and/or publisher). We need some more information on why the students would make these digital presentations available online to the public before determining whether fair dealing will apply to allow students to do this. Can you please provide some examples of when students would want to make their presentations containing scanned book covers available online to public so we can provide further advice. For further information on fair dealing, see Smartcopying at: [] Students designing their own book covers There are no copyright issues arising from students designing their own book covers. Students own copyright in the original material they create.