Copyright@CIT

Fair Dealing
A number of circumstances in which the preproduction of a limited or fair part of the work is permitted. No permission is required, and no payment is due to the copyright owner. The circumstances for fair dealing are;
Research or study
Must be for the purposes of research or study. In brief, a whole of part [...]

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This week we look at insubstantial copying. It has been a long established practice that educational institutions can copy ‘insubstantial portions’ of literary and dramatic works, NOT musical or artistic.
These copies have to be used in the course of education, on the premises of the institution, and a whole work can never be copied. This [...]

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Over the next few weeks I’ll start updating you to the changes brought about by the latest copyright laws change. Please remember there a lot of changes, but in the blogs I’ll do topic specific ones, so a bit at a time.
 Today podcasts and vodcasts of broadcast content.
This change relates specifically to material that was [...]

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