Internet & Web development (2)/Course materials/Web Site Issues/Copyright and Fair Dealing

Copyright

are exclusive rights given to owners for their creations. (Copyright 2009). It protects compilations of data and multimedia works, films being the moving images on a video or DVD.

For web develpment you will need to consider the following aspects

1. Copyright on your original material and
2. Copyright on that material of others, including
   1. Those you have permission to use (maybe supplied by your client)
   2. Those you have included from other sources (e.g. the web)
   3. Those your users post onto your web site

Original material

• Copyright owners enjoy certain exclusive rights in relation to their creations. Your website will have copyright content on it and you should take measures to protect your rights by:
  • obtaining an assignment or licence of the copyright in the material created by your website designers so you can control future website designs and amendments
  • obtaining assignments of copyright or licences from third party consultants to use copyright material that they have created
  • displaying the copyright symbol (c), the name of the author, year of publication and terms of use, particularly on pages where users are able to download or copy material from your website
  • setting out in your general terms and conditions a statement that users of the website must obtain permission before copying, downloading or altering material from your website
  • ensuring that access to material that is not for general public use, is only available to password holders or only after payment of a fee and acceptance of specific terms and conditions.

The best way to avoid issues with copyright is to create your own original content.

• Include (c) symbol and usage policy
• When working with a client make sure your contract clearly identifies how ownership is to be handled (e.g. design, software (including the actual code), content)

Owners of films have the exclusive right to:

• Copy their material
• Issue copies for the public for the first time
• Rent copies to the public
• Play or show their material in public
• Communicate their material to the public.

Although this is not a requirement, it clearly identifies your material by using the symbol, the name of the copyright owner and the first year of publication i.e. ©Raihania 2011.

Copyright in New Zealand lasts for the lifetime of the author plus fifty (50) years from the end of the year of when the author died.

Performers have some limited rights to control the recording and live transmission of their performances. It is advisable to have a Talent Release Form completed by your actors to clarify copyright issues with the commissioner.

Content from others

• Your website might also contain or use third party copyright material which you do not own. You should take measures to protect yourself from infringing third party copyright rights by:
  • making sure you obtain licences to use and reproduce the copyright material before you place the material on your website
  • complying with any terms of use attached to the material
  • ensuring that if you link your website to third party websites, you only do so in accordance with their terms and conditions.

• You should also protect yourself from liability if those using your website infringe someone else’s copyright (ie when posting material to your website) by:
  • stating in your terms and conditions that you maintain authority to use and remove any material as you see fit without obtaining permission, that you are not responsible for the **content of any posted material, and that under no circumstances are you authorising an infringement of copyright
  • requiring parties posting to your website to indemnify you for any loss arising from copyright infringement
  • ensuring that any infringing material is removed as soon as it is identified
  • providing statements limiting your liability, where applicable.

• As a Web developer/ maintainer
  • Ask permission.
  • Check use policies
  • Acknowledge the copyright holder (in academia this is often done through citing and referencing)
  • Put disclaimer (particularly in a web site where others can add content - e.g. wiki)
  • Check your site regularly for additions and remove unauthorised content, or provide a mechanism for user reporting.

Can I use that?

Copyright - A flow chart poster from a research project Art at Risk: Copyright, Fair Dealings and Art in the Digital Age by Dr Susan Ballard and Pam McKinlay, 2010 - Otago Polytechnic

• Drawing in http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/fileadmin/DepartmentalResources/Academic/Art/ART_at_RISK/artatrisk_reREVISED2PartONE.pdf

New Zealand Copyright

In April 2011 the New Zealand Government passed the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011. This act amends the Copyright Act 1994 to provide content owners (Rights holders) of copyrighted works such as movies, TV shows and music with a quicker and easier way to penalise people infringing their copyright (from illegal downloading). Under this legislation, from the 11th of August 2011 rights holders can begin to monitor for Internet access which breaches their copyright, and to begin sending infringement notices for breaches of copyright from the 1st of September 2011. This change affects all users of all systems at NZ institutions (and companies ), including staff, students, casual users, students in residential villages, business on campus using the institutions internet access, irrespective of location.

A successful infringement allegation can see the institution being fined up to $15,000.00 per infringement with the potential of having the internet connection being cut for up to six months for all users.

Some guidelines to understanding the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 can be found at the links below:

• Know the facts 3strikesNZ
• Basics of the new law
• FAQ's
• Protect yourself at home

(based on an EIT all staff email)

Case studies

Copyright attached to photographer

macaque monkey self portrait

Technically, in most cases, whoever makes the actual work gets the copyright. That is, if you hand your camera to a stranger to take your photo, technically that stranger holds the copyright on the photo, though no one ever enforces this. A story involving an award winning nature photographer, David Slater, who was in Indonesia in a national park. At some point, he left the camera unattended, and apparently a macaque monkey wandered over and took this hilarious self-portrait.

So here's the legal question: Who owns the copyright? Apart from the photo shown left, two other photos were submitted to and have a Carters copyright(see the reference). How has there been a legal transfer. The monkeys were unlikely to have sold or licensed the work. The assumption is that it's likely that the photographer, Slater, probably submitted the photos to the agency, and from a common sense view of things, that would make perfect sense. But from a letter-of-the-law view of things, Slater almost certainly does not hold the copyrights on those images, and has no legal right to then sell, license or assign them to Caters.

• Monkey Business: Can A Monkey License Its Copyrights To A News Agency? (2011) [1]

Resources

• Copyright Act 1994 Public Act – New Zealand Legislation. (n.d.)
• Introducing Copyright. A plain language guide to copyright in the 21st century, by Julien Hofman (Hofman, 2009) Book can be downloaded as a PDF file.
• Rationale - Why is copyright important? (Copyright Council of New Zealand, 2006a)
• Law basics - 3 strikes law http://3strikes.net.nz/information/law-basics

Creative Commons (Copyleft)

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

Creative Commons Kiwi (CreativeCommons AotearoaNZ, 2011)[5]

• On YouTube: Baking the Creative Commons Cake - Understanding Creative Commons Open Licenses

For a training session on creative commons go to Creative Commons unplugged in WikiEducator

These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. At the forefront of the copyleft movement, there are six major ("Licenses - Creative Commons", n.d.)[6]:

• Attribution (cc-by)
  • This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.
• Attribution Share Alike (cc by-sa)
  • This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
• Attribution No Derivatives (cc by-nd)
  • This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
• Attribution Non-Commercial (cc by-nc)
  • This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
• Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (cc by-nc-sa)
  • This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.
• Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
  • This license is the most restrictive, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Your own work (best practices)

• CC0 waiver, all rights waived (Public domain) - The author of the work has dedicated it to the public by waiving all of his or her rights to the work under copyright law and all related or neighboring legal rights he or she had in the work, to the extent allowable by law.
• Own work, all rights released (Public Domain) - The copyright holder of this work, releases it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
• Own work, copyleft, attribution required (CC-BY-SA-3.0) - freedom to reuse provided proper attribution is maintained and the requirement to distribute any modifications under the same, similar, or compatible terms.
• Own work, attribution required (CC-BY 3.0) - allowing you the freedom to reuse provided proper attribution is maintained.

> Creative commons chooser

Further resources

• Stagg, A. (2013) What are Creative Commons Licences and Open Educational Resources? University of Southern Queensland . Retrieved from https://usqdirect.usq.edu.au/usq/items/1d4a6707-8dfb-4fc3-8fe8-4860f94cda85/1/
• Stagg, A. (2013) How do I attribute works with Creative Commons Licence? University of Southern Queensland . Retrieved from https://usqdirect.usq.edu.au/usq/items/0b6ebd0e-59d9-4a3d-a1d1-ec148e04416d/1/
• Creative Commons. (2010, September 14)
• About & Register a seat here

http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About

• • Session 3: http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Workshop_schedule#Session_3 - AdrianLim 19:50, 13 May 2012 (EDT)
• Creative commons chooser

Fair dealing (fair use)

is another exception to the rule of permission but only for:

• Research or private study. No more than one copy is permitted on any one occasion. The user must detemine that copying of such material is for research or study and that it is fair.
• Criticism or review. This generally means that the author and the title of their work is acknowledged.
• Reporting current events. Sufficient acknowledgment is given unless reporting is done by sound recording, film, broadcasting or cable programme.

According to the Copyright Council of New Zealand (2006b) “fair dealing” with copyright material does not infringe copyright if it is for the following purposes:

• research or private study;
• criticism or review; or
• reporting current events.

Fair dealing has been an important part of Copyright Law for over 150 years, even the Copyright Law does not specify how to apply fair use. There are four types of considerations when evoking fair use:

• the nature of the use
• the nature of the work used
• the extent of the use
• its economic effect.

For video: Video makers have the right to use as much of the original work as they need to in order to put it under some kind of scrutiny. Comment and critique are at the very core of the fair use doctrine as a safeguard for freedom of expression. So long as the maker analyzes, comments on, or responds to the work itself, the means may vary. Commentary may be explicit (as might be achieved, for example, by the addition of narration) or implicit (accomplished by means of recasting or recontextualizing the original). (Center 2011).

Resources

• Fair Dealing – Information Sheet (Copyright Council of New Zealand, 2006b)
• Who decides what Fair Dealing covers? (Creative Freedom NZ, n.d.)

References

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