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Copyright

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First created 11 March 2009
Last reviewed 8 June 2020
Review cycle Two years
Approver Senior Leadership Team
Owner Projects Manager
Stakeholders Staff, students

Rational and Scope #

The purpose of this policy is to outline guidelines for schools covered by the laws incorporated in the Copyright Act 1968. Copyright licenses will be kept up to date to enable copying of documents, media and music for educational purposes. Copying is to be limited to that which is permitted by law.

Principles #

Copyright is an intellectual property right that gives a copyright owner exclusive rights to deal with their copyright material (e.g., reproduce materials, publicly perform the material, and communicate the material to the public). AISWA coordinates copyright licence requirements for independent schools, including Rehoboth Christian College, for educational purposes, within certain limits. These seven licences available are for:

  1. AMCOS Photocopying
  2. APRA AMOCS / ARIA – Music Recordings and Access
  3. APRA Primary
  4. APRA Secondary
  5. Copyright Agency Ltd.
  6. Screenrights
  7. CCLI (SongSelect)

Payment of licence fees is the responsibility of the Finance Manager.

The following uses of copyright material will not raise any copyright issues:

  1. When the copyright material is in the public domain;
  2. You are using your own copyright material;
  3. You are only using an insubstantial part of the copyright material;
  4. You are not dealing with the material in a way that uses any of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights (e.g. exhibiting a physical photograph or painting; lending a physical book).

Copying Guidelines #

Under the statutory licence administered by Copyright Agency, an educational institution may copy a “reasonable proportion” of a work, and make as many copies as necessary for their class purposes. A “reasonable proportion” is taken to mean:

From a commercially available hard copy #

  1. Literary work – 10% of pages or 1 chapter, whichever is the greater.
  2. Dramatic work – 10% of pages
  3. Musical work – 10% of score pages
  4. Artistic work – whole work if it explains/illustrates an article copied legally or a whole work if not separately published or available in a reasonable time or at a reasonable price.

From a commercially available electronic work #

  1. Literary work – 10% of number of words or 1 chapter, whichever is the greater.
  2. Dramatic work – 10% of pages
  3. Musical work – 10% of score bars or number of pages
  4. Artistic work – whole work if embedded in an article copied legally or a whole standalone work.

From a periodical #

  1. One article from one issue
  2. A series of articles on the same topic
  3. From an anthology of literary or dramatic works
  4. No more than 15 pages
  5. As much as needed if work not separately published or available commercially.

Notes #

  1. The school should not hold more than 10% of a work in copied form at any time.
  2. All hard copies made must include a warning notice; an example an be found on the Smartcopying website.
Updated on 5 April 2023