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COPYRIGHT GUIDELINES ON UPLOADING IMAGES AND MATERIAL

 

  1. It is important to ensure that all necessary rights and permissions have been obtained for the material you plan to upload. Where you incorporate text from a course textbook, blog, journal, magazine, newspaper, you will need permission from the author to include the material in your lecture notes. However, if you are using work that is in public domain, you need not obtain permission of the original author or copyright owner. Copyright clearance is still required whether the material contains a copyright notice or not. If in doubt, assume copyright applies and apply for permission from the copyright owner prior to use and remember to retain copies of such permission.


  2. While not every unauthorized use of a copyrighted work is an infringement, whenever you include another person’s words, illustrations, photographs, charts or graphs in a work you publish, you must be sensitive to the risk of infringing someone’s copyright. Do note that giving credit is not a defense to copyright infringement as copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of someone else’s copyrighted material.


  3. Make sure the portions of copyrighted material you are using in your course meet the standards of this guideline.


  4. Where a copy of the website is placed on the virtual learning environment, the website must be attributed with a full citation together with a copyright notice on the website.  The copyright notice may be worded as follows:-

    “The materials on this course website are only for the use of students enrolled in this course for purposes associated with this course and may not be retained or further disseminated. The materials on this course website may be protected by copyright; any further use of this material may be in violation of copyright law.”


  5. Put the copyrighted material in a section of your virtual learning course site that is secured.

    This should meet the distribution requirement, because only students enrolled in your course will have access to that area.


  6. Copyrighted material could be made available for no more than a 15-day period, and your students should be instructed to not make their own copies of the material.


  7. To the extent technologically possible, the content must be protected from further distribution.


  8. Link to websites rather than printing them out or downloading copies. They are no restrictions on linking to websites, although you should not link to infringing sites.


  9. Providing the terms and conditions allow it, you can:

    (a) save a webpage or website to include on the virtual learning environment (providing a    link from the virtual learning environment to the webpage or site is preferred).

    (b) cache a webpage or site for students to access at a later date.

    (c)  make multiple copies of a webpage to give as handouts in class.

    (d)  print out a webpage to include in a course pack or give as a handout.

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These guidelines are for information purposes only. With the exception of personal, noncommercial use or properly cited quotations as provided for under the Malaysian Copyright Act 1987, any reproduction, republishing, translation, sale or broadcast of any part of these guidelines without prior permission of Seow & Associates is prohibited. Any changes to or deletion of any part of these guidelines requires the prior permission of Seow & Associates.

Please note that these guidelines are not intended to take the place of legal consultation		 copyright