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This is a really useful resource – it will help you determine whether you can use specific types of material in your teaching without breaching copyright:
https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/learning-objects/copyright/
25 Thursday Jun 2015
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This is a really useful resource – it will help you determine whether you can use specific types of material in your teaching without breaching copyright:
https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/learning-objects/copyright/
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http://helixmedia.regents.ac.uk/Play/491
Above is a link to a video guide on copyright and the law when using video in your teaching. The talk by Andy Horton (Deputy Library Manager here at Regent’s) was given as part of the ‘Tricks of the Trade’ series last term. It was edited by James Leahy (VLE Content Developer).
If you would like more information you can contact Andy:
Email:hortona@regents.ac.uk
Twitter: @fechtbuch
11 Monday Nov 2013
Posted Copyright, Tricks of the Trade
inAndy Horton, here at Tate Library Regent’s University London did a great overview of Copyright and video as part of the Tricks of the Trade series last week
Andy started by showing a Copyright video on Youtube and noting that the same laws that apply generally to copyright apply to video.
Copyright, the law, and you. Copyright is a strand of intellectual property law (along with Pattern, design and trademark). The purpose of Copyright law is to protect the owners of their creative works, be it the printed word or videos. It is illegal to copy, distribute, alter, shift format of a work without permission. So in the case of videos taking a section of a video and reusing it. Format shifting is illegal, so for example recording a CD and then uploading recordings to MP£ player is not legal, as is uploading a DVD to a VLE like Blackboard is illegal. Individuals and organisations are both held liable. The main act that describes this is called the The Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Does copyright apply to video? Yes. Films, TV programmes, radio programmes, web broadcasts, are covered by copyright law. It is illegal to copy, distribute, alter, shift format of a video, DVD, or other filmed work. The duration of copyright legislation is different for films compared to TV programmes. Films: 70 years from death of last surviving of director or screenwriter or composer (whichever lives longest). However, for TV programmes it is 50 years from date of broadcast. So at the start of next year the first Dr. Who programmes will no longer be copyrighted.
Who owns the copyright on a video? Firstly, it is the creator of the video or the creator’s employer. So if I was to send out one of the library assistants to video people arriving at the library as say a promotional video Regent’s University would own the copyright on that. Rights may be sold or assigned to others.
Andy then played his friend’s band video on YouTube to illustrate this point. The band signed away their rights to the video.
Some other issues to be aware of are; Secondary infringement, Multiple rights holders, Other areas of the law may also apply. So that the first person who breaks the copyright law is not the only person who is potentially liable. So for example if a video is illegally uploaded to Youtube and then a lecturer embeds this link into Blackboard that lecturers is breaking the copyright law. Also other laws apply say for example the video is showing something that is illegal.
So rather than focussing on the negative lets look at what can be shown. There is the concept of ‘Fair Use’ in the law. What is allowed? “Fair use” as defined by law and the really important part of this for us in Higher Education is that it is legal to show a work for purposes of “Criticism and review”. You can’t be expected to teach and discuss a film or video without showing it. Also, copyrighted works may be used for examined work. However, it is not “fair use” to play a copyrighted work for entertainment, including in the classroom. (say just playing the March from Star Wars just for fun!) Finally we have to be aware of ‘secondary infringement’ (e.g. filming a lecture where you showed a video).
We also have ‘Licenced Use’ of films and TV programmes. The Educational Recording Agency licence (ERA). Allows recordings off-air of Freeview channels and OU programmes for use in education. It also allows these to be uploaded to a VLE, such as Blackboard but it does not cover pay channels, on-demand services (such as BBC iPlayer etc). Finally the ERA does require sources to be acknowledged and credits included. Below are the ERA guidelines for citing the video:
Youtube.com and other video hosting services (such as Vimeo).
Youtube hosts videos uploaded by subscribers (ie those who join YouTube). Allow fair use of videos uploaded. Subscribers are responsible for copyright compliance. YouTube will take videos down if rights-holders ask. Some videos not available in all territories especially US sites. Also note there is the risk of secondary infringement. YouTube also hosts some Creative Commons videos –where rights to distribute or alter are much less restrictive (usually as long as the intent is not for commercial gain). Also YouTube ‘Terms and conditions’ apply.
Using your own videos. When using videos you have produced yourself – Rights aren’t a problem, if you own them. So lecturers here at Regent’s can upload videos to Helix (the media player). However do remember that the copyright to works produced in course of your employment belongs first to your employer i.e. Regent’s University.
Permission. Obtaining permission to use a video. Explicit permission of rights holder is need. However, the Rights holder may not be obvious. There could be several rights holders, and danger of secondary infringement. In terms of making requests: explain exact use you wish to make, for non-commercial purpose, offer to acknowledge ownership. Example: Michelle Travis’ Avatar: City of Heroes Style. Used here with her explicit permission. She in turn had explicit permission to use in-game footage, and more importantly the soundtrack (Do you want to date my) Avatar by The Guild feat. Felicia Day
In conclusion make sure that you always act within the law, always acknowledge authorship and when in doubt ask for assistance!
Andy’s Contact details:
Tel. No.: 020 7487 7448
Email: Andy.horton@regents.ac.uk
Twitter: @fechtbuch
20 Thursday Jun 2013
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Below are the slide’s from Andy Horton’s presentation on ‘Copyright and eLearning’ given at a recent Tricks of the Trade session (with some additional images from myself). Hopefully I will turn this into a ‘proper’ fim very soon.
04 Tuesday Jun 2013
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Recently Andy Horton (Deputy Library Manager here at Regent’s University) did another excellent Tricks of the Trade session on e-learning and copyright. Here are James Leahy’s brief notes on the session:
Intellectual Property Rights in 2013
New laws intended to protect against torrenting websites (bulk downloads of illegally copied media files) now mean that “shifting formats” can mean extracting any files from one source and converting them to another is illegal e.g. importing song files from a CD into a virtual library (such as iTunes).
Drawing information largely from the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Digital Economy Act 2010 Andy introduced us to the Intellectual Property Office and the Copyright Licensing Agency and the concept of moral rights, particularly the most common offense being secondary infringement (which is chiefly perpetrated by users of media sharing sites such as YouTube where people frequently recreate links and embed in websites without checking if the poster of the materials has the rights to have done so in the first place). Always acknowledge authorship, this is good practice.
Copyright on media generally lasts 70 years from the death of the creator(s), which is the case with motion pictures, where 70 years must have elapsed from the deaths of all director(s), author(s) of screenplay and composer(s) of score. In this way copyright can be held by more than one person/party.
Orphan works can be defined as a piece of work where you cannot identify the person who created a work, most typically photographs. Images carry unseen metadata and the rights holders can search for unauthorised use.
“Fair use” can be invoked for shifting format for student accessibility purposes and would be covered by an institution’s CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency) license.
Blackboard content is covered by our CLA license when making content available to a controlled number of people and when covered by our Enterprise License Agreement it is possible to obtain a copyright fee paid copy from the British Library of journal articles an institution doesn’t have.
A “Reporting Your Scanning” form is available on Blackboard from the homepage of the intranet: http://tinyurl.com/rccopying
Educational Recording Agency Plus License will cover an institution for the majority of TV recordings.
03 Monday Jun 2013
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I’ve started to work on producing a copyright guide for lecturers at Regent’s University and I thought I’d start with some typical questions. So, myself and Andy Horton (Deputy Library Manager) came up with the following list. If you can think of anything we’ve missed can you add a comment.
2. Can I copy images from the internet and use them in my PowerPoint slides?
3. Can I upload DVD’s to Blackboard?
4. Can I upload a clip of a DVD to Blackboard?
5. Can I upload to photo from the internet to my Blackboard module?
6. What is a Creative commons Licence?
7. Does Regent’s College provide any training on copyright?
8. Can I scan and upload pages from a book to my Blackboard module?
9. Can I use an image as art work for my video and upload it to Blackboard?
10. Can I upload a DVD to Helix or blackboard?
11. Can I upload a Journal article to Blackboard?
12. Can I photo copy a book and give it to my students?
13. Somebody gave me something can I photocopy it or put it on Blackboard?
14. I took a photo – can I put it on Blackboard?
15. Can I upload a podcast to Blackboard?
17. Can I put some background music from my favourite CD on a video?
18. Can I use a logo on a student handout or upload it to Blackboard?
19. Can I put a quote from someone famous on my powerpoint slide?
20. Can I quote something from twitter and put it on a student handout?
21. Can I take text from a website and use it in a handout?
22. Can I put a link to a website on my Blackboard module?
23. If I own a eBook can I upload it to Blackboard?
24. If I’m an author of an eBook can I upload it to Blackboard
25. Can I use anything I download from YouTube
26. Can I upload a newspaper article to Blackboard?
27. Can I upload a picture/photo from a newspaper to Blackboard?