Copyright and lecture recording and streaming

There are copyright implications if you use third party copyright material (that is, material where you are not the copyright owner) in a lecture which you record and stream to students.

While section 28 and section 200 of the Copyright Act allow you to use many copyright materials in classes and lectures, they do not permit you to record a lecture containing that material and make that lecture available online to students.

The University has agreements in place with the representatives of copyright owners which allow the copying and streaming of material under certain conditions. Details of these conditions are set out below.

Films, videos, DVDs, podcasts and lecture recording

You can copy and upload to Lectopia or a Learning Management System such as BlackBoard or WebCT the following:

• you can upload to Lectopia all or part of a TV program that has been recorded from a TV broadcast received in Australia. Lectopia won’t capture the DVD, video or film that you show in a class so you will need to upload the material separately
• you can also copy and stream podcasts of radio and television programs originally broadcast as programs by free to air broadcasters in Australia
• remember that the Part VA Warning Notice must be displayed before a film, video, DVD or podcast file is opened by the students – see below:

You cannot copy and upload to the lecture streaming system or a Learning Management System such as BlackBoard or WebCT the following:

• anything, even a small section, from a hired or purchased film, video or DVD. While you can show this material in class or lecture you cannot copy or stream even a small section from this material without the permission of the copyright owners
• copying a film, video or DVD without the appropriate licence or the copyright owner's permission is an infringement of copyright legislation and can incur severe penalties
• podcasts created especially for the internet which were not originally broadcast as free to air programs by the broadcaster

Literary works and Lectopia

• the Copyright Act allows you to read from a literary work and to perform a dramatic work in a class or lecture.
• when you record a lecture containing such readings or performances you must ensure that the Part VB Warning Notice is displayed before the students download the lecture
• remember that all electronic text-based copyright materials required for student course work must be located in the Library’s Reserve Collection, also known as CORS. With the exception of images and diagrams in lecture notes, such works should not these works should not be located on faculty severs.

Images, diagrams and artistic works and Lectopia

• you can copy diagrams and figures by hand from third-party copyright material during a lecture but if these are captured by a document camera and made available online the Part VB Warning Notice to be displayed before the images appear online
• if include images, diagrams and other artistic works from third-party copyright material in a PowerPoint presentation in a class include the Part VB Warning Notice as the first slide in your PowerPoint presentation to the class
• the Part VB Warning Notice must be displayed before the lecture is downloaded by students
• remember to acknowledge the author of each work so that you abide by the moral rights sections of the Act.

For additional information contact Kate Sexton, Director of Copyright Services, +61 2 9351 2991, email: Copyright@usyd.edu.au