Copyright

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What is copyright?
Copyright is the legal right of creative people to say how their work can be used and shared.Anyone who wants to copy and share copyright material, even if it’s for educational purposes, must have the copyright owner’s permission.

Why does my school need a copyright licence?
Print:  If your teaching materials include copying content from books, journals, magazines or newspapers, it’s likely your school requires a print licence. By holding a print licence,  you have advance permission to copy from the work. It also sets a good example for your staff and students that demonstrates your school respects other people’s creativity and their work.The licence significantly reduces the legal risk of non-compliance. It also sets a good example for your staff and students that demonstrates your school respects other people’s creativity and their work.

Music: While the Copyright Act allows for certain uses of music when used in the course of education, often schools want to use music in ways that fall outside of these allowances. The OneMusic Schools Licence ‘tops up’ the rights provided to schools under the Copyright Act, allowing schools to make the most of music.

Audio-visual: If your school uses audio-visual material in teaching, it is likely that you will need a Screenrights licence to permit you to do so legally. A Screenrights Educational Licence permits the copying and communication of audio-visual material under the Copyright Act. The licence allows copying from broadcast television and radio, and material made available legally on the internet for use in education, including material available through educational resource centres ETV and ClickView.

What are the benefits of my school having a copyright licence?

Print:  A print licence provides comprehensive permission to copy and share printed material sourced from books, textbooks, journals, magazines, newspapers and periodicals. The licence allows copying far beyond what is permitted under the Copyright Act.For around the cost of one new book per classroom, your school can maximise your existing print resources and enable your teachers to enjoy worry-free copying for students.

Music: Under the Copyright Act, schools can perform and play music in the course of its activities but only to an audience of students or staff. Any other audience, including parents, makes the performance a public performance and requires a licence. The OneMusic Schools Licence gives schools the freedom to perform music at concerts, fundraising and social events, make recordings of performances for students and their families, create and copy digital music files for use in lessons, stream events from the school website, and extends photocopying allowances for sheet music.

Audio-visual: A Screenrights Educational Licence grants educators the freedom to use tv programmes, films and material from the internet legally in education for a low annual fee. The fees collected are distributed to the owners of the works used to help support the creation of new material for education. With a Screenrights licence, you can access to tens of thousands of programmes and films curated for educational use by online resource centres such as ETV and ClickView, copyright cleared. Use material in class or in remote learning, link it in documents and LMS, share it with staff and students. Type your paragraph here