Copyright for Students
Publishing your Work
Publishing contracts Often in submitting your work for publication, you may be required to sign a publishing contract. It is important to read the contract carefully and consider what rights it is asking you to give to the publisher and how this will ...
How to Get Permission to Use a Copyright Work
Licence agreements Getting permission to incorporate copyright content into your work, such as extracts or images, requires you to enter into an agreement with the copyright holder of a work. It is a good idea to ask for permission at the beginning ...
When You Need to Ask Permission
Publication generally If you intend to publish your work, include it in your institution’s online research repository or use it for purposes outside your own education or research, it is likely that you will need to get permission from owners in any ...
Course Materials Provided by Lecturers
Copyright applies Many of the teaching materials you receive as part of your course of study, such as articles from journals and chapters from books or other publications, are protected by copyright. Often these are copied for or otherwise made ...
Statutory Exceptions for Students and Researchers
Fair dealing for research or private study purposes Broad permission Under the Copyright Act, a fair dealing with a work for the purposes of your research or private study does not infringe copyright. This means you may copy from any copyright ...
Using Other People’s Material
Responsibility to respect copyright Tertiary students and researchers rely heavily on other people’s content during their course of study or research. You refer to, copy and quote from all types of books, journals, course packs, images, diagrams and ...
The Works You Create
Ownership of copyright in your original work When you are enrolled in a course of education, it is inevitable that you will be producing copyright material. In most cases, you own copyright in any original works you create, including assignments, ...
What this Section is About
This section of the knowledge base outlines copyright issues that arise for students and researchers in the tertiary education sector, for instance when preparing assignments, writing and publishing research theses or dissertations. It covers ...