Lectopia at Murdoch

Copyright and Lectopia

The Copyright Act permits the playing of audiovisual materials (e.g. a DVD or CD) during a face-to-face class or live lecture without any special licensing, or permission from the copyright owner; this provision does not apply to their use in a lecture that is to be recorded.

The use of AV materials in Lectopia must be under licence (either with Screenrights or the specific producer/distributor), with the copyright owners' permission, or with the protection of s.200AB (the 'flexible dealing' provision) of the Copyright Act.

Images such as photographs, illustrations, graphs, etc. that you wish to use in a PowerPoint presentation that is to be loaded in Lectopia are also subject to copyright and must be fully referenced and preceded by a copyright warning notice (see below).

All third party materials used according to the Screenrights, CAL, or Tertiary Music Licences must be logged in the Copyright Management section of Lectopia's Staff Tool.

Audiovisual Materials

PowerPoint Presentations in Lectopia

Audiovisual Materials & Lectopia

The Screenrights Licence

The Screenrights licence (aka the Part VA licence) allows the University to copy and communicate some otherwise protected copyright audiovisual works without the need to seek individual permissions for each use.

To 'copy' in this case refers to recording radio and television broadcasts directly off-air (not to the copying of commercially produced videos or DVDs);

and

to 'communicate' refers to the password protected dissemination of such a recording via, for instance, a system such as Lectopia – either in the context of a recorded lecture or as a separate upload.

Screenrights recordings: off-air copies
The Screenrights licence allows staff to make recordings off-air of any material broadcast on radio or television (including cable and satellite channels); it also covers the recording of podcasts and vodcasts of broadcasts. You can record off-air at home onto video or DVD (see below for other sources of Screenrights recordings). These copies become 'Screenrights recordings' when labelled as below – they can be catalogued by the library for loan to staff and students, or simply kept in your own office.

Copy made for Murdoch University under Part VA of the Copyright Act

Title of program:
TV channel or radio station:
Date and time of broadcast:
Length of recording in minutes:
Date this copy was made:

There is no restriction on the amount that can be recorded: a segment or a whole program may be copied; you can also make a compilation of a number of broadcasts.

Screenrights recordings: various sources
The Library catalogue will tell you if the University already has the recording you need (and, on the shelf, it will have a green label on its cover); if not, another University or educational institution may hold a Screenrights copy of the material you want. Your Subject Librarian can identify if the item is available at another library, and will make a request for it to be copied (at a cost-recovery fee).

TVNews & RequestTV are Screenrights licenced databases (in operation since late 2007) that provide students and staff of Murdoch University access to all programs broadcast by the free-to-air TV channels. You can view/link to TVNews videos online; staff can order a copy of a RequestTV DVD for the library's collection.
See the Library's Guide to using TVNews and RequestTV for more information.

EnhanceTV offers recordings of feature films, documentaries, serials, and so on – all recorded off-air and Screenrights licenced. Contact your subject librarian for purchases from EnhanceTV.

Tape Services Online also has a wide selection of Screenrights licenced recordings available. Contact your subject librarian for purchases from Tape Services.

Screenrights recordings can be delivered for individual viewing via Lectopia – please use the Upload to Lectopia Request Form.

Commercially licenced videos and DVDs

The Screenrights licence does not cover the copying or communication of commercially purchased or hired videos/DVDs, or sound recordings on CD or other formats.

Green labels & commercially licensed videos/DVDs in the Library
When purchasing new items (that are not available as a Screenrights licenced recording) the Library is sometimes able to obtain an Educational Purposes Licence from their producers or vendors, allowing the use of the work in Lectopia.
Library catalogue entries for individual AV items note if their use in Lectopia is covered; and, like Screenrights items, their covers are marked with a green label.

NB Unlicensed items (whether bought by the University or an individual) are strictly protected by contract and/or a number of copyright restrictions which nearly always prohibit their being recorded or communicated via a system such as Lectopia. This needs to be taken into consideration when preparing lectures that are to be recorded.

s.200AB of the Copyright Act may allow the use of snippets of some unlicensed commercial AV material: because each use must be judged as a 'special case' please contact the Copyright Coordinator for advice on the application of s.200AB.

Remember that while, usually, you may play commercially purchased or hired items in a lecture, if you want to have that lecture recorded you are responsible for:

confirming that the item has an appropriate Educational Purposes Licence (e.g. if it is housed in the Library the information will be noted in its catalogue entry, and it will bear a green sticker); or
obtaining the copyright owners' permission – as well as observing their conditions of use and meeting any payments – to record and communicate their material; or
consulting the Copyright Coordinator regarding the use of s200AB in this case; or
using a technology that enables you to avoid recording the item, e.g. an MP3 recorder.

Copying and/or communicating AV materials without the appropriate licence, copyright owner's permission, or protection of s.200AB is an infringement of copyright legislation and can incur severe penalties.

The Tertiary Music Licence (TML)

Under the TML, the University can copy, communicate, and perform material from an extensive repertoire in which copyright belongs to members of the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS); the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA); Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA); and the Australasian Record Industry Association (ARIA).

In the context of Lectopia, some of the activities licensed are:

copying recorded lecture onto disc and distributing discs to students;

Please be aware that music to be used for activities under the licence must not be sourced from an internet site – even where that site is a legitimate vendor.

PowerPoint Presentations & Lectopia

Images and text

Most images, including those sourced from the Internet, are protected under the Copyright Act, unless copyright has expired, or the copyright owner specifies otherwise.

The CAL licence covers staff for the use of images downloaded from the net for educational purposes, and for the use of hardcopy images too in certain circumstances. Each item must be fully referenced (details can be provided as end-notes on a final slide if you prefer that system, rather than marking each slide). You will also need to display a copyright warning to appear each time the presentation is opened; it is suggested that you insert the following notice as your first slide.

Music

The Tertiary Music Licence also covers the use of music in PowerPoint presentations – see above for details of the licence's requirements.

For more information on copyright, please contact Kate Makowiecka, the Copyright Coordinator.
Tel: 9360 7491
Email: copyright@murdoch.edu.au
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/copyright/