What do teachers need to do to be ‘copyright-compliant’ when putting together resource books for distribution to students?
Typically resource books contain hard copies of printed material or of electronically stored materials. These copies are permitted – within limits –under the statutory licence in Part VB of the Copyright Act. Charges for resource books may only be made on a cost-recovery basis. The Department requires that material be labelled appropriately in order to manage the licence effectively. The requirements are that: • a Part VB notice [will be linked to Part VB notice] be included at the front of the bound resource book; and • the name of author, title and year of the publication, name of the publisher and details of the pages copied be written/printed on the first page of the relevant copied material Occasionally other printed materials are included in a resource book. Two examples are provided here. For other unusual situations, please contact the copyright helpdesk (copyright@edumail.vic.gov.au) for advice. Transcripts of radio or television programs It may be possible to type out a trans
