When making copyrighted materials available to your students for learning and teaching purposes it is essential that you do not infringe copyright law.
Although copyright law in the UK is governed by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CPDA) 1988, it was recognised that lecturers needed to deliver multi-media teaching materials. In 2014 a number of changes were made to the law to enable this without infringing copyright law: Exceptions to copyright: Education and Teaching
The University also holds licences such as the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) HE Licence and the Educational Recording Agency (ERA) Licence which allows you to copy and re-use materials for teaching purposes.
For general copyright advice see Copyright - the basics
Copying printed materials for teaching and instruction
For teaching and instruction purposes the HE Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Licence allows you to make:
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multiple photocopies of limited extracts from copyright protected printed books, journals and magazines
The photocopies may be made by both academics and students and be distributed in the classroom.
Digital copies for teaching and instruction
The HE Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Licence allows the Library's Scanning for Teaching service to create copyright compliant digital copies of book chapters and journal articles for teaching purposes. This is especially useful for printed texts which are heavily used or difficult to access, and for those texts where we are unable to purchase the electronic version.
The Scanning for Teaching team in the Library will:
- check that the material is covered by the CLA licence
- retrieve the print copy from stock
- digitise the chapter/article (usually, one chapter of a book or one article from a journal or 10% - whichever is greater)
- include the appropriate copyright notice
- send you the link to make the text available via secure teaching and learning platforms such as Blackboard, Brightspace and Reading Lists Online.
Further details can be found on the Scanning for Teaching pages.
Linking to electronic resources in E-Learning@Tees and Brightspace
When linking to electronic resources from E-Learning@Tees and other teaching and learning platforms it is important that you should only provide a link to the material and not upload a publisher's PDF. By uploading a PDF you will infringe copyright law.
Using images in teaching
The CLA Licence allows the use of coprighted images for the purpose of illustration for instruction. This means that images can be photocopied or scanned and distributed to students and you can also use images in presentations. However it is essential to assign full attribution of the source.
Images on the Internet
Images found on the Internet may be used in teaching and learning materials, however care must be taken as many of the images will not be copyright free and some images may infringe copyright themselves.
There are many sources of copyright cleared images available on the Internet which you can use in your teaching. However, you should always check the terms and conditions to ensure you are not infringing copyright and always give full acknowledgement or attribution of the source.
Free resources for obtaining copyright cleared images:
Broadcast video and audio recordings
Off air recordings
The University holds licenses from the Education Recording Agency (ERA) and the Open University which allows staff at the University to:
- record programs from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5
- show clips or copies of whole programmes for educational purposes
- use clips from broadcaster's websites and catch-up services
- share programmes or clips on VLEs and embed clips into presentations
BoB (Box of Broadcasts): The ERA license allows us to watch and share the streamed videos from the UK TV and radio broadcasts available on BoB with other members of the University. The license also allows us to incorporate videos (by way of BoB link/embed code) into printed and electronic coursework or study packs hosted on a secure network/VLE for educational purposes only.
Our Helpsheet on Video and Audio recordings provides more in-depth information for staff at the University.
Requests for off-air recordings can be made using the Off-air recordings form
A word of caution
- Recordings may not be supplied to distance learning students outside the UK
- Care must be taken when using videos from YouTube and elsewhere on the Internet - they may have been uploaded illegally. It is good practice to link to a YouTube video instead of downloading it.
Recording lectures
Recorded lectures have become increasingly important in providing learning resources that can be viewed off-campus and on-demand. However, there are both copyright and data protection issues to consider when recording, storing and disseminating the recordings:
- where the lecture is recorded by a lecturer (employee of the University) as part of his/her job then copyright is generally owned by the University
- normally, when a lecture includes works that have been created by people not employed by the University (e.g. visiting speakers or students) permission will be required to include them in the recording
- data protection law applies to all identifiable individuals (e.g. students and visiting lecturers). Everyone attending must be informed that the lecture is being recorded, why it is being recorded and who will have access to it. They should be given the opportunity to opt out.
Clear guidance regarding copyright issues when recording lectures can be found in the JISC guide Recording Lectures: legal considerations
Disclaimer: Although the University has a responsibility to ensure staff and students are aware of copyright law, it remains the responsibility of the person making the copy to ensure that they do not infringe copyright. The information on this guide is intended as a general guideline of current copyright issues. It is not intended to be legal advice. The Copyright Licensing Co-ordinators for the University are based in Legal and Governance Services.
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