Audio-Visual (Off-Air) Copying and Communication
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) has brokered a new
Sampling Agreement with Screenrights for audio-visual copying. This agreement
commenced on 1 January 2005 and gives certainty to universities until 31
December 2009 that their costs for copyright will not escalate unmanageably.
The provisions include:
- The agreement covers all audio-visual copying off television, radio and
satellite as well as the communication of these copies. It does not, however,
cover copying or communication of bought or hired videos and all copying and
communicating must be for educational purposes of the University and not for any
other purposes.
- The "educational purposes of the University" include:
- use to teach students;
- making the copy available to students, or communicating to students, as part
of a course of study at the University;
- retention in the University library or elsewhere (e.g. by a staff member) as
a teaching resource; and
- the administration of students and courses.
- Each licensed electronic copy and licensed communication must contain a
prominently displayed notice that must appear either before or at the same time
at the material being communicated appears on the screen.
- Each analogue copy of a broadcast made under the licence must be labelled in
accordance with the copyright regulations. The label must contain the following
information:
Made for the Australian National University under Part VA of the Copyright Act
1968
Date program was transmitted _____________________________________________
Date this copy was made (if different)
_______________________________________
- The University must take 'all reasonable steps' to ensure that material
electronically communicated in reliance on the licence can be received or access
only by those people entitled to receive it (i.e. staff and students of the
ANU). This means that an authentication system, such as password protection or
encryption, must be in place to prevent unauthorised access.
Sampling
The main feature of the agreement is that there is no longer a requirement to
keep records for copying undertaken throughout the year, except when the
University is selected to be sampled. Each year 11 universities will be sampled,
one for a period of 12 weeks over the summer break and the remainder for 6 weeks
each. As with print-based copying these surveys will be undertaken by AC
Nielsen.
Guidelines
The AVCC has prepared some guidelines which answer any questions that you have
about the sampling scheme. If you have any questions that are not addressed,
please contact the Copyright Officer.
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Although your area may not be directly charged for the cost of audio-visual
copying, you are reminded that copying under these agreements is not a cost-free
resource and the levels of copying undertaken by the University throughout this
agreement will impact on the rates set for future agreements. Therefore, please
limit your copying to what is necessary.
