Everything you ever needed to know about copyright

(in 15 mins)

Copyright: A property right that protects expression

Sargent, Noon after Millet, 1875

Van Gogh, Noon: Rest from work 1890

Copyright is Automatic, it just needs to be:

• form of expression of information;• in material form;• created by an author(s); and• original

BooksManuscripts

PoetryPeriodicals and

JournalsDissertations and

thesesReports

PhotographsPamphlets/brochures

TextbooksReference works

CataloguesDirectories

Paintings, cartoons, sketchesSoftware

Websites and online worksE-mail messages

Lasts for70 years

Except when it doesn’t

• Reproduce• Publish• Perform publicly & communicate• Adapt

licence

exceptions

permission

insubstantial

public domain

Public domain image

Exceptions – Flexible Dealing (s200AB)

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Exceptions – Flexible Dealing (s200AB)

A. Is the use allowed under another section of the Copyright Act? Fair dealing, library and archival copying, statutory licence, consumer exceptions, section 183

B. For the purposes of “maintaining or operating” the library or archives? Or for “educational instruction”?

C. Does the use meet the requirements of s200AB? The use must:

• Not conflict with normal exploitation of the work;

• Not unreasonably prejudice the copyright holder; and

• Be a special case.

Fair Use

• What are you doing? • What are you using? • How much are you using? • What about the copyright holder?

Orphan works

TPMsWIPO Library TreatyMarrakesh Treaty for BVIPStatutory licencesGeoblockingCopyright and ContractPerpetual copyright unpublished worksKAFTA, JAEPA and the TPP

Dawn over Porthmadog Harbour Ian Dalgliesh CC BY-SALa Grotta di Byron by Andrea CC BY 2.0 altered by addition of Pirate Bay logo by Trish Hepworth

Martin Luther King, Lincoln Memorial 1963, US Department of Defence Public Domain

Pietre & Renee Lanser: Doratella black tabby spotted & white female kitten CCBY 2.0, altered by Trish Hepworth

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