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Summary of digital copying rules

Please also see Copyright information on the DRS website

All materials subject to copyright must be printed or digitised at UniSA and shipped offshore for distribution. As course information booklets and Study Guides are printed offshore therefore no material that is subject to copyright is to be included in these course materials but should alternatively be produced at UniSA digitally.

As Readings are supplied electronically, preparation of Readings for transnational programs must adhere to the digital copying rules of the Copyright Agreement.

That is:

  1. You may copy 1 chapter of a book, providing that only one chapter is taken from the book University wide. You may copy only one article per journal issue per course, unless the content is related. Academics will be advised if their course reader is in breach of copyright by the Digital Resource Service (DRS). Academics should obtain confirmation of all readings copyright compliance prior to developing their course materials to ensure that no-one else "University wide" has registered an alternative chapter of the text for another program. The DRS can be contacted by using this email address: drs@unisa.edu.au.
       
  2. No Readings should be sourced and reproduced from the Online Library Databases made available by the University of South Australia Library. It is in breach of our licensing agreement to reproduce these Readings electronically therefore students should be directed to the databases to access them directly.
     
  3. Printouts from websites may not be reproduced electronically as readings without permission by the DRS. URL's to the websites should be quoted in the table of contents or included in your study materials both hardcopy and online. If the link is no longer active, or is protected by password, you can reproduce in print only unless you can establish that reproduction can take place without breaching digital copyright laws.
      
  4. Multiple readings may be taken from anthologies providing that each reading has an individual author and no one reading taken from the anthology exceeds 15 pages in length.
      
  5. All digitised Readings must be registered with the copyright register held by the DRS as part of the Copyright agreement
      
  6. No copying of non UniSA copyright material should be undertaken offshore by either the partner or lecturer as it would then be subject to that country抯 copyright law. In most offshore locations they do not have digital copyright licensing agreements with educational institutions and their copyright laws are often more restrictive than in Australia.

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