This struck me as an unusually clear and direct copyright statement that made it easy to comply with:
http://www.e-strategyguide.gov.au/copyright
The Copyright Aware website has an even simpler copyright statement.
Should be more of this simplicity!
For a plain English copyright usage guide check out both the CopyrightAware and SmartCopying FAQs websites.
Educational publishers, digital media people and web developers should also check out the National Education Access Licence for Schools (NEALS) initiative which help schools to copy and communicate print and digital material for educational purposes free of charge. According to the Copyright Agency Limited 05/06 Encouraging Creativity annual report [size 1.2Mb], revenue from education institutional licences totalled $77.5 million last financial year.
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Well….. it’s a short statement, but I’m not sure it’s simple.
“For personal and non-commercial educational purposes, you may download, store in caches, print and/or reproduce this material in unaltered form (retaining this notice) free.”
So if I’m accessing that page via a caching proxy at a University in order to print it out for my fee paying students - am I breaking the law?
Is it within my rights to use that quote in this comment? Under U.S. law it would be considered fair-use, but I believe Australian law lacks that concept.
I added emphasis to a particular section. Is that allowable?
The e-Strategy copyright statement is a lot better, because it is internally consistent and doesn’t try to be too smart (although the clause restricting “derogatory treatment” is unusual).
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