Copyright basics

• Key concepts
  • What is copyright?
  • Ownership and duration
  • Copyright compliance
• What can I copy?
  • Fair dealing
  • Research or study
  • Private and domestic use

Performing and publishing

• Public performances
• Publishing your work
  • Protecting your work
  • Obtaining clearances
  • Contracts and licences

Links and resources

• Copyright definitions
• Copyright notices
  • Part VA warning notices and labels
  • Part VB warning notices and labels
  • Music Licence notice
  • Music contents list
  • Notices for display on copying equipment
• Forms and sample letters
  • Templates for requesting permission from copyright owners
  • Checklists for s200AB special case exception
  • Consent form for guest lecturers to permit recording of lecture
  • Consent form for students to permit material to be put online
• Links
• Handy summaries

Information for staff

• Legal overview
  • Students covered
  • Copying for offshore students
  • Teaching external programs
• Course readings and reserve
  • Student notes
• Using images and diagrams
  • Citing images & diagrams
  • Finding images
• Using CDs & music
  • Using CDs & recordings
  • Performing music & teaching
• Using multi-media
  • DVDs & movies
  • Using DVDs: a quick guide
  • TV & radio broadcasts
  • Podcasts
• eLearning sites
• Recording & streaming lectures
• Class & exam use
• Copying for students with disabilities
• Content for the general public

Information for students

• Copyright guide for students
• Copyright and your thesis
• Music & copyright: a guide

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