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Copyright 4 Educators (AUS)

Part 1 Violet Assignments

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Mon, 2010-09-20 06:15

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Helen Belfrage
Thu, 2010-10-07 14:03

• Extracts from Charles Darwin's personal diaries and notebooks;
1. Literary work - Journal
2. If the personal diaries and notebooks were published in Darwin’s lifetime (pre 2005), copyright provisions allow for copyright to be protected for 50 years after his death (1882). The diaries and notebooks would therefore no longer be protected by copyright. However as copyright can be inherited in the estate of a deceased person, it would be necessary to determine if the notebooks were passed on to his beneficiaries who published them at a later stage and would own the copyright for 70 years from the date of first publishing.

• Images of Darwin that she downloaded from the internet;
1. Artistic works – Photography/paintings/cartoons etc
2. The author of each of the images that she downloads, is the owner of the copyright.

• Extracts from Darwin's book "the Origin of the Species";
1. Literary work – text book
2. Provided this is not an “adaptation” of Darwin’s book this would be out of copyright.

• Genetic Code Chart from http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/psa.gc.pdf;
1. Artistic work : Charts
2. The publishing company would hold the copyright protection for the chart itself however the information on the chart would be open to the public domain.

• A clip from the BBC TV science documentary series “Life" with David Attenborough she taped from television;
1. Film - Television broadcast
2. The person who made the broadcast.

• Clips from the film " Creation”;
1. Film - cinematographic films
2. The producer of the film would own the copyright

• Her own original drawings and photographs of animals, trees and fauna she created while on holiday;
1. Artistic work – Drawings/photographs
2. The school where the teacher was employed would own the copyright. Although on holidays, the teacher is still employed and undertaking activities to contribute to her paid employment. She is not eligible for the “academic exception” as she is not in a tertiary institute.

• A one page fact sheet about Evolution she designed and compiled which includes short extracts and images from http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/interactive/2009/feb/12/charles-darwin;
1. Literary work – Text books and Artistic works – photographs, images
2. The school the teacher works for owns the copyright to the overall fact sheet she has designed. The journalist (a journalist has copyright for his or her works for purposes other than the publication in their employers publication) and the photographer would still own copyright to their contributions to the fact sheet.

• Her own original quizzes, research, teaching notes and text about Darwin, prepared as part of her teaching job.
1. Literary works – text books
2. The teacher’s employing body would have the copyright ownership of the teacher resources prepared by the teacher in the course of her work.

Hi Violet group. You have

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Mary Lydon
Mon, 2010-10-11 00:06

Hi Violet group. You have done a great job on this. I'm particularly interested in the situation where she took photographs and made drawings in her holidays (it seems so wrong that she doesn't own copyright but I fear you are right). Perhaps it would depend on when she did the work? If she had collected them over years or some time before starting the lesson preparation, she could perhaps argue that she had them and made use of them later - they weren't actually made especially for the class work?

I am a bit unsure about the

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titus321
Mon, 2010-10-11 07:10

I am a bit unsure about the holiday drawings etc. If this was a hobby of hers and was only used by her in class surely the school could not claim ownership. I was thinking of my own use of photos in the class all of which I took while on an overseas holiday several years ago with no thought then that I might find them useful in the classroom!

Robyn have a look at my

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Delia Browne
Wed, 2010-10-13 23:10

Robyn have a look at my comments to each group answer posted in each Group Assignment space under course materials

Hi Delia Thanks for comments,

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Helen Belfrage
Tue, 2010-10-19 13:20

Hi Delia
Thanks for comments, re: the genetic code I liked your comment "may lack sufficient originality to qualify as an artistic work protected by copyright" as this was what I was trying to get at but in a less informative way. I am pleased to hear that you think she would own the copyright for her images as they were done as a hobby initially - does seem a bit unfair if she didn't. However what about the holiday photographs with the "wow I could use this in my Geography Year 9 class on Salinity (or whatever) I guess it is not quite so black and white.