Over the next few weeks I’ll start updating you to the changes brought about by the latest copyright laws change. Please remember there a lot of changes, but in the blogs I’ll do topic specific ones, so a bit at a time.

 Today podcasts and vodcasts of broadcast content.

This change relates specifically to material that was originally broadcast on commercial or pay TV, and then was put onto a website for you to download as a podcast etc. We can now download and use this material even if the site says “for private and home use only”. You can download the material and use it in the classroom or in your online classroom. This will be done via the Screenrights licence, so all the conditions that apply to ‘off-air’ recordings apply to these pod or vod casts. As CIT is on a sampling method, all you need to do it put the copyright notice near the file, and record details of when you acquired it, just like an ‘off-air’ recording. Then next time we are being sampled you will need to record details of the podcast or vodcast just like you did with the recordings.

Please note – this does not apply to material you obtained via a creative commons licence, for that material you need to follow the terms of the licence, and remember to keep the CC logo with the material.

If you need help applying these changes to your own area, please give me a call on ext. 73158 or via email.

Vanessa

Hi all,

Just in time for all those Christmas presents you were planning to buy. Santa / no sorry the government passed and enacted the Copyright Amendment Act 2006 on 11/12/06.

This means all those Ipods, and Playstation 3 recorders can now be used for private home use. So its safe to buy and use them LOL.

So home taping for private and domestic use is finally legal.

Also for private and domestic use, you can now (if you own a legal copy), ‘format shift’ this to something else to use. For example copy your CD’s to your MP3 player, or copy that DVD you own to play on your portable playstation or similar devise.

There is a lot more to the Amendment Act and some for us in education too, but I thought you may be more interested in the private stuff for Christmas. I’ll write more as I go through it.

Have a merry musical and visual Christmas!

Vanessa

The government announced on Mother’s Day this year, some changes to Copyright law. Some of the anticipated changes affect the education sector.

Another of the major changes it announced was the ability to ‘format shift’ music CD’s to your computer, IPOD, or any portable device.

There are two important things to note here, (1) that this law has not been passed yet, it is expected that a draft version will be released for discussion soon. (2) The ‘format shifting’ is for personal use not educational use, so while we can teach students how to copy – ‘format shift’ it doesn’t mean we can collectively start copying CD’s to use at work here in our ‘education business’.

Nationally the Copyright Advisory Group TAFE division is working on negotiating a license with APRA/AMCOS to enable us to do a whole raft of activities with music, so I will keep you posted as news comes to hand with this one.

Again this does not affect your Screenrights copied broadcast material (anything off radio or pay TV), this material you can copy to Computer/CD or even digitize for release to students through WebCT.

Vanessa

The government announced on Mother’s Day this year, some changes to Copyright law. Some of the anticipated changes affect the education sector. One great one for us was the ability for the education sector to copy out of print VHS video’s to DVD format.

It is important to note, that this law has not been passed yet, it is expected that a draft version will be released for discussion in July.

If you are using ‘purchased’ educational VHS videos in your classes, at the moment it is not legal to copy them to DVD. Hopefully by the end of the year this will change.

This does not affect your Screenrights copied broadcast material (anything off TV, radio or pay TV), this material you can copy to DVD or even digitize for release to students through WebCT. Not through public websites like YouTube though.

Vanessa