Copyright101
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COPYRIGHT (in NZ) 101 Worksheet
This sheet: goo.gl/Wy3zwa
Answer sheet: goo.gl/XfLzuu
Warm-up activities
Basic copyright stuff
Question Your answer ✔
1 Copyright lasts for how long in NZ…?
2
Which of these is not subject to copyright:
1. a photo on a blog,
2. notes you took in a seminar,
3. an idea in an essay you wrote,
4. or all of them?
3
What do I do to copyright something I created?
4
If I own ©, I have which of these rights:
1. make copies of a work
2. publish it
3. rent or licence it
4. ‘communicate’ it via broadcast or internet
5. perform or play it
6. adapt it or
7. translate it?
(Circle all that apply)
5
True or false: there can be multiple copyright owners in a single work.
6
Does copying someone else’s work always require permission?
7
Bonus question:
What is the purpose of copyright?
Ownership
Who owns the copyright?
Answer ✔
1 Who owns copyright for things you create as part of your job?
2
Who owns copyright in students’ work?
3 You’re a teacher and you ask a student to take a photo of you teaching the class on your phone. Who owns the copyright: you, the student or your employer?
4 You upload a holiday snap to Twitter or Facebook: who owns the copyright?
5
Who owns the copyright in academic research articles or books?
6
If three researchers draft an article for publication, who owns the copyright?
7 Your department runs a citizen scientist project where the public can upload photos, data and written contributions to your website. Who owns the copyright?
8
Continuing the scenario from 7, you write a blog post highlighting recent contributions by users of the site. You including a photo by one of your students and some data gathered by a high school class. Who owns the © in this post?
9
If you use an open access licence on your work (e.g. Creative Commons), are you ‘giving away’ your copyright?
Reusing others’ work In the digital age we can reuse and adapt at the click of a button. Read each scenario below and say whether the use is OK or not. For each, ask yourself:
- Is the thing being copied protected by copyright? If it is, who owns it?
- Is the use covered by a licence?
- Is my use covered by fair dealing or another exception in law?
- If none of these covers your use, you should ask the © holder for permission.
Scenario OK or not? =
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1 Susan has a private blog in she posts book reviews of recent NZ fiction. She includes short quotes of no more than a paragraph as she discusses the good and bad points of the novels.
2
Mike is an undergrad student writing a review of relevant literature in a 300-level sociology paper. In his assignment he includes diagrams from articles he thinks are relevant to his topic.
3
Mario is a lecturer. He always starts his lectures with a slide of a Larsen cartoon. There is always a Larsen cartoon to suit any topic.
4
Mario puts some students’ essays from last year’s class (with names removed) on Blackboard as exemplars for his students.
5
Mario is checking out a new book in the library and walks over to the photocopier to make a copy of a chapter so he can read it in more depth and annotate it.
6
Mario thinks his Honours class would benefit from reading the chapter. He makes a clean scan and puts it in Blackboard.
7
A student shares his photo of the University Clocktower (with cherry blossoms) on Facebook. Chris, a university administrator, re-shares the photo using Facebook’s share button.
8
Chris then thinks the photo would make a great background for a poster advertising a departmental staff/student barbeque.
9
Peter is a researcher. He signs a copyright transfer agreement with the publisher of his latest journal article. He uploads the PDF he gets from them to his Academia.edu profile.
10 In the scenario described in 7 and 8 of the Ownership page, if you wanted to reuse the photo in the blog post, who would you ask?
11 You find a photo via Google search that you want to use in an email about an upcoming staff/student barbeque that will go to all staff and students.
Resources / further reading
University of Otago IP Rights Policy
Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand (including CC kiwi video)
Creative Commons licence chooser
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