Copyright@CIT

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 originally broadcast on commercial or pay TV, and then was put onto a website for you to download as a podcast etc. We can now download and use this material even if the site says “for private and home use only”. You can download the material and use it in the classroom or in your online classroom. This will be done via the Screenrights licence, so all the conditions that apply to ‘off-air’ recordings apply to these pod or vod casts.

If you are on a sampling method, all you need to do it put the copyright notice near the file, and record details of when you acquired it, just like an ‘off-air’ recording. Then next time you are being sampled you will need to record details of the podcast or vodcast just like you did with the recordings.

If you are on the continious recording method, then you will need to record it the same way record an ‘off-air’ recording.

For those woth no Screenrights licence, then you must continue with getting permission each time you wish to download and use.

Please note – this does not apply to material you obtained via a creative commons licence, for that material you need to follow the terms of the licence, and remember to keep the CC logo with the material.