Copyright & Creative Commons for images in Teaching
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Copyright automatically protects original creative works upon creation, granting creators exclusive rights including reproduction, adaptation, distribution, publication, and performance. Copyright applies to the expression of ideas in a tangible form, not the ideas themselves, and persists for 50 years after the creator's death in South Africa. While copyrighted works cannot be freely reused without permission, exceptions like fair use allow limited educational use of copyrighted materials. Creators can also choose to license their works with Creative Commons licenses to indicate how others may legally reuse and adapt their works.
Copyright & Creative Commons for images in Teaching
- 1. Copyright & Creative Commons Shihaam Donnelly Adapted by Thomas King and Kyle Rother
- 4. Rights include: ● right to reproduce ● right to adapt ● right to distribute or sell ● right to publish ● right to perform or broadcast ● freedom to transfer the rights ● freedom to grant permission to use the work in a specified manner
- 5. Copyright is default Assume that anything you find on the internet is copyright unless stated otherwise: ● many people assume that because something is freely available online, that it is not subject to copyright, and can be used without restriction ○ free/freely available ≠ public domain!
- 6. Copyright law ● Copyright is automatically assigned ● In SA, copyright persists for 50 years after the death of the creator, or the date of publication if it was not an individual creator ● Copyright owners may transfer their rights or grant individuals permission to use the work ● And most importantly: copyright applies to items, not ideas ○ In order for copyright to apply, a work has to have a physical manifestation
- 8. Fair dealing in education Section 12 of the Copyright Act allows for fair dealing (in America they have Fair Use, which is similar, but different) ● The use of copyrighted work without permission from the copyright holder for illustrative purposes ● Name of author and source must be mentioned Educators can use copyrighted materials in the classroom for illustrative purposes, but are limited in that they cannot share their materials online There is no clear definition of what constitutes fair use ● Various factors are considered when determining fair use
- 9. Adaptation and Revision Remember, copyright refers to discrete items, not ideas or concepts You can rework a copyrighted image, graph or visualisation to fit your context, so long as that reworking constitutes a qualitative change
- 14. Copyright permissions If you are working at a university, your institution may have a blanket licencing agreement with the collecting society for literary and artistic works, which in SA is DALRO. This covers certain types of uses of a work by staff and students, such as copying chapters from textbooks, etc.
- 15. Works Who to request permission from Printed works (published edition) Publisher or DALRO Printed publications (pre-print or out-of-print) Author/s Thesis Author Photographs or Artworks Creators or DALRO Company Publications Contact publications manager Videos, films or DVDs Producers, suppliers or distributors Sound recording – music SAMRO Computer programs Software creators or distributors Information on the internet Webmaster/author of post (for blogs) Interviews Interviewer and Interviewees Copyright permissions
- 16. Creative Commons These licenses offer for a more flexible management of the exclusive rights offered by copyright, giving the creators the ability to make explicit how their work may be legally (re)used.