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Hi Julian See point 6 of: http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/ID/2028/Copyright-Law-Essentials-14-April-2011.aspx Regards Sandra Huskinson Online Development Officer School of Business and Economics Loughborough University http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/bs Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> This is a part-time post (0.5) email reply times will be affected as a result. I do not pick up my loughborough email or accept phone calls, text or messages whilst off site as I am working on other projects. Normal working hours Monday, Tuesday - Thursday (AM only) This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. All statements and opinions in this e-mail are made without liability and without prejudice. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. [teamgb-bse2011][cid:image002.jpg@01CE2098.6C6F89D0] From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julian Prior Sent: 14 March 2013 09:37 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Fair/Educational use of copyrighted materials in the UK? Hi all, I'm after some advice - a colleague is working with the online service Voicethread to create online student presentations. When delivering training in using the software she talked about the importance of using openly licensed content. However, she has had the following email from a student who is claiming that it is ok to use copyrighted materials for educational purposes. I have copied his email below. Any thoughts? "Earlier in the term, I attended a briefing for my Organized Crime class that I believe was given by you. In this briefing, you showed us how to create Voicethread presentations, and also told us that we could not use any pictures with copyright protections, because it was against the law. However, when I investigated the particulars of copyright protections in Britain, I found that under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988, Section 32 (particularly paragraphs 1 and 2A), copyright is not infringed when the work is used for educational purposes, provided that several provisos are met (the copying is done by the person giving or receiving the instruction, is not done by means of a reprographic process, is accompanied by sufficient acknowledgement, and provided that the copying is done for non-commercial purposes). Therefore, my reading of this is that it is not a violation of copyright to use pictures off the internet in the creation of presentations for class. If you are aware of another law that supercedes this, or if there is a university regulation on this topic that is more stringent, please let me know. In speaking with my professors, none of them have a problem with using graphs, charts, and graphics from various sources (copyrighted or not) provided that we provide proper citation of the source. Incidentally, to the extent that there might be an issue with Voicethread presentations being accessable by the public, note that paragraph 2A of Section 32 of the above-cited law addresses that concern (and indicates, to my non-lawyer eyes, that it is not a copyright violation). It is absolutely my intent to meet the requirements of the law, so set me straight if necessary. Otherwise, I thought you might like to know for the sake of future presentations." cheers JP -- Julian Prior Learning Technologist e-Learning Team Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office Wessex House 5.35 University of Bath Claverton Campus Bath BA2 7AY Tel: 01225383864 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Web: http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/about/staff/j.prior.html Twitter: @jpodcaster<https://twitter.com/#!/jpodcaster> Skype: joolsyp