Copyright Permission IS Required When:
- Material you want to use is still within copyright
- Copyright material you want to use for teaching purposes exceeds the educational allowances provided within the Copyright Act
- Adapting a copyright work or creating a new or ‘derivative’ work from an original copyright work
When Copyright Permission IS NOT Required:
There are several situations in which materials can be used without permission:
- A journal article that appears full-text in AUS Library subscribed online database
- Single journal article not from an AUS databases and is used for only one semester
- Single book chapter used for one semester
- Works that lack originality, e.g. phone book
- Links to materials freely available on the web to iLearn course
- Ideas, processes, methods, and systems described in copyrighted works
- Facts
- Works not protected by Copyright:
- Some U.S. Government publications – Publications of the United States government are considered public domain and, therefore, can be used freely.
- Items in the public domain – If an item has passed into the public domain, it is no longer protected by copyright and can be used without limitation. Remember even is a work is out of print it doesn’t mean it’s out of copyright. Copyright ownership is generally for the life of the author plus 70 years.
- Unpublished self-authored material, since you are the copyright holder you can use it as you wish