What is the legal position concerning the use of third party information on our VLE. Would a reference to the original source be sufficient for copyright purposes?
Copyright in VLEs The short answer is that when you are using materials which belong to others, like any other property, it is necessary to get their permission. Mechanisms to facilitate the use of materials in education have been developed including licensing which is the means by which most materials which belong to publishers will be used in Further Education. Of course, where employees of the college author materials themselves then the college is likely to own those materials. A detailed exploration of the issues associated with developing materials for use in a VLE is contained in the document Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Networked E-Learning – A Beginners Guide for Content Developers by John Casey is available on our website at – http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/publications/johncasey_1.htm For a more basic introduction to the Copyright aspects of e-Learning have a look at both “Copyright Law for e-Learning Authors” and “Copyright Licensing for e-Learning Authors” also availa
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