Welcome to the university! I hope your stay will be interesting and rewarding.
Our university is committed to the proper observance of copyright law, and upholding the rights of creators and users. This page contains basic information that you should know about copyright compliance in your new workplace. The full Griffith Copyright Guide on the web at www.griffith.edu.ua/ins/copyright/ is a more comprehensive reference.
Griffith, jointly with Queensland University of Technology, has appointed a University Copyright Officer to help staff and students understand their obligations. The officer is Mark Magner. He can be contacted by telephone on 555 29331 (Griffith) or 313 84024 (QUT) or by email at m.magner@griffith.edu.au. Copyright Information sessions are offered periodically through the GIHE Professional Development Program. Check their calendar to register at www.griffith.edu.au/gihe/ . In addition, the Copyright Officer is able to give customised information sessions to staff and students by arrangement.
The University is permitted under Part VB of the Copyright Act to make multiple copies of print material for teaching and administrative purposes. In brief, the limits for a unit of study are:
The university is permitted to put print material online for teaching purposes, in accordance with Part VB of the Copyright Act. However, the requirements are both complex and strict. The quantities are much the same as for copying, except that only one part of a particular book may be available online at any one time across the whole university.
Information Services provides a service whereby they will digitise your readings and make them available online to your students through Learning@Griffith in a copyright compliant way. Consult the Digitisation and Distribution website www.griffith.edu.au/ins/digitise/ or phone 338 21143 or 21178.
Another part of the Copyright Act, Part VA, permits the University to copy radio and television transmissions for teaching purposes. Programs may be copied from free-to-air, satellite, and cable television, and public and commercial radio. There is no restriction on what may be copied, but copies MUST be labelled in the required way, and they become the property of the University. For details, consult the TV and Radio chapter in the full Copyright Guide at www.griffith.edu.au/ins/copyright/.
You are encouraged to use the recording service provided by Audiovisual Services. Consult their webpage at www.griffith.edu.au/ins/audiovisual/offair/ or phone 373 55555 or 555 25555.
The University has a licence agreement with the music copyright societies that permits staff to make copies of music issued on record labels within the repertoire of ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) for educational purposes. For example, you can make a compilation of items for your students to study. The copies may be distributed to students on CD/DVD or placed in the library. The copy or its packaging must carry the following notice:
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This recording has been made by Griffith University under the express terms of an educational licence between it, AMCOS, and ARIA, and may only be used as authorised by Griffith University pursuant to the terms of that licence. |
and the following details:
They may also be made available online to students for listening only, but not for download. If you want to put recorded music online, please contact the University Copyright Officer before proceeding.
Films, videotapes and DVDs may not be copied for University purposes without the written permission of the copyright owners. It is now legal under Australian law to copy a videotape that you own onto DVD, for your own private and domestic use. However, then using the DVD you have made for University purposes renders the DVD infringing. Playing the DVD on equipment you do not own also makes it infringing. It is against the Use of University Information Technology Resources Code of Practice www.griffith.edu.au/ins/org/techmenu/coc.html to store or play infringing files on University equipment.
Material found on the internet is not necessarily “free”. Copyright law applies to online material as well as hard copy, and owners are becoming increasingly vigilant. You should be particularly cautious about accessing music and video on the Internet. Much of the music and video available for download from websites or through peer to peer networks is in the form of illegal copies, which infringe copyright. Having illegal copies on your computer is a breach of the IT Code of Practice as well as a copyright infringement, and will render you liable to disciplinary action by the University, and vulnerable to prosecution by the media industries if you are caught.
The Copyright Act makes special provisions for research so that you may copy a reasonable portion of a copyright work for your own research or study. A reasonable portion, for these purposes is:
If you are the owner or a licensed user of a computer program, the law allows you to make copies of that program for backup, to develop interoperable programs, to correct errors, and to test security. Copying of software for any other purpose is a copyright infringement, and carries heavy penalties.
The Copyright Act includes "moral rights" for creators. These are the rights of attribution and integrity. Briefly, this means that there is a legal obligation to attribute a person's work when you quote it or include it in readings or lecture notes.
The University has a comprehensive policy on the ownership of intellectual property created by staff during the course of their employment. This policy can be found online in the Policy Library http://www62.gu.edu.au/policylibrary.nsf/. Generally, the copyright in works created by students is their property, and their permission should be obtained before any use is made of their work, regardless of the purpose.
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Welcome to the university! I hope your stay will be interesting and rewarding.
Our university is committed to the proper observance of copyright law, and upholding the rights of creators and users. This page contains basic information that you should know about copyright compliance in your new workplace. The full Griffith Copyright Guide on the web at www.griffith.edu.ua/ins/copyright/ is a more comprehensive reference.
Griffith, jointly with Queensland University of Technology, has appointed a University Copyright Officer to help staff and students understand their obligations. The officer is Mark Magner. He can be contacted by telephone on 555 29331 (Griffith) or 313 84024 (QUT) or by email at m.magner@griffith.edu.au. Copyright Information sessions are offered periodically through the GIHE Professional Development Program. Check their calendar to register at www.griffith.edu.au/gihe/ . In addition, the Copyright Officer is able to give customised information sessions to staff and students by arrangement.
The University is permitted under Part VB of the Copyright Act to make multiple copies of print material for teaching and administrative purposes. In brief, the limits for a unit of study are:
The university is permitted to put print material online for teaching purposes, in accordance with Part VB of the Copyright Act. However, the requirements are both complex and strict. The quantities are much the same as for copying, except that only one part of a particular book may be available online at any one time across the whole university.
Information Services provides a service whereby they will digitise your readings and make them available online to your students through Learning@Griffith in a copyright compliant way. Consult the Digitisation and Distribution website www.griffith.edu.au/ins/digitise/ or phone 338 21143 or 21178.
Another part of the Copyright Act, Part VA, permits the University to copy radio and television transmissions for teaching purposes. Programs may be copied from free-to-air, satellite, and cable television, and public and commercial radio. There is no restriction on what may be copied, but copies MUST be labelled in the required way, and they become the property of the University. For details, consult the TV and Radio chapter in the full Copyright Guide at www.griffith.edu.au/ins/copyright/.
You are encouraged to use the recording service provided by Audiovisual Services. Consult their webpage at www.griffith.edu.au/ins/audiovisual/offair/ or phone 373 55555 or 555 25555.
The University has a licence agreement with the music copyright societies that permits staff to make copies of music issued on record labels within the repertoire of ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) for educational purposes. For example, you can make a compilation of items for your students to study. The copies may be distributed to students on CD/DVD or placed in the library. The copy or its packaging must carry the following notice:
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This recording has been made by Griffith University under the express terms of an educational licence between it, AMCOS, and ARIA, and may only be used as authorised by Griffith University pursuant to the terms of that licence. |
and the following details:
They may also be made available online to students for listening only, but not for download. If you want to put recorded music online, please contact the University Copyright Officer before proceeding.
Films, videotapes and DVDs may not be copied for University purposes without the written permission of the copyright owners. It is now legal under Australian law to copy a videotape that you own onto DVD, for your own private and domestic use. However, then using the DVD you have made for University purposes renders the DVD infringing. Playing the DVD on equipment you do not own also makes it infringing. It is against the Use of University Information Technology Resources Code of Practice www.griffith.edu.au/ins/org/techmenu/coc.html to store or play infringing files on University equipment.
Material found on the internet is not necessarily “free”. Copyright law applies to online material as well as hard copy, and owners are becoming increasingly vigilant. You should be particularly cautious about accessing music and video on the Internet. Much of the music and video available for download from websites or through peer to peer networks is in the form of illegal copies, which infringe copyright. Having illegal copies on your computer is a breach of the IT Code of Practice as well as a copyright infringement, and will render you liable to disciplinary action by the University, and vulnerable to prosecution by the media industries if you are caught.
The Copyright Act makes special provisions for research so that you may copy a reasonable portion of a copyright work for your own research or study. A reasonable portion, for these purposes is:
If you are the owner or a licensed user of a computer program, the law allows you to make copies of that program for backup, to develop interoperable programs, to correct errors, and to test security. Copying of software for any other purpose is a copyright infringement, and carries heavy penalties.
The Copyright Act includes "moral rights" for creators. These are the rights of attribution and integrity. Briefly, this means that there is a legal obligation to attribute a person's work when you quote it or include it in readings or lecture notes.
The University has a comprehensive policy on the ownership of intellectual property created by staff during the course of their employment. This policy can be found online in the Policy Library http://www62.gu.edu.au/policylibrary.nsf/. Generally, the copyright in works created by students is their property, and their permission should be obtained before any use is made of their work, regardless of the purpose.
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