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Can I use it or can’t I?

• For people who want to put teaching material into RADAR - and the session will also apply to putting material into Brookes Virtual

• Looking at using images and film and video

• Concentrating on images and video that you can find on the internet

• Looking at how to work out whether you can use the material you’ve found

• Time for questions at the end – and do contact me to follow up specific questions

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Does the law allow me to use images for teaching?

• Basically, no

• The law allows material to be copied for coursework and for private study, but not for teaching

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So can I use images from the internet?

• This depends partly on whether the web pages explicitly say that you can use their images

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Some web sites say ‘no’ clearly

• And this means you can’t use their images

• eg the National Portrait Gallery:

• http://www.npg.org.uk/

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Some web sites don’t say

• And this means you can’t use their images

• eg the Ecclesiological Society

• http://www.ecclsoc.org/

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Some web sites say ‘yes’

• And this means you can use their images – under the conditions they set

• Eg the National Gallery

• http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

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Some web sites say ‘yes’ – but can you trust them?

• Eg, an Advanced Google Image search allows you to limit the search to images ‘licenced for reuse’

• http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_image_search?hl=en

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Why you should distrust a web site’s permission to use images

• Because the advice is based on laws in a different country

• Because they are using unsafe interpretations of the law

• Because the web site doesn’t understand the law – or allows contributions from people who don’t understand the law

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Recommended image sources

• Links to image databases which the Library has subscribed to

• and other recommendations

• available from the library web pages:

• http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/copyright/usingimages.html

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Education Image Gallery

• Available via the library web pages

• http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/

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Ask Media Workshop to create the image you need

• Particularly useful for diagrams – it can be difficult to find diagrams available for educational use

• Bob Pomfret also draws cartoons

• Examples of Bob’s work are available on RADAR

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Can I use DVDs?

• You can show DVDs in teaching

• but you can’t copy clips from DVDs or TV programmes to use in teaching materials

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Can I use film and video from the internet?

• Usually web sites won’t give permission to download videos

• but you can link to the videos

• YouTube eg.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRh_dAzXuoU

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Video and film databases

• The Library subscribes to databases of film and video which you can use in your teaching materials

• Film and Sound Online

• NewsFilm Online

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NewsFilm Online

• Available via the library webpages:

• http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/

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Sources of advice and guidance (see handout)

• My web pages on copyright

• Ring me – extension 3146

• JISC Legal

• JISC Digital Media