Copyright
When it comes to copyright there’s so often an element of uncertainty and pragmatic judgements to be made about risk. There are a number of resources available from the UCL library that help you observe copyright laws.
- Course Readings Services:
Navigates the copyright landscape; smooths the way to obtain texts you can legally pass to your students. - Readinglists@UCL:
Organises course texts and presents them to students (optionally in conjunction with the aforementioned Course Readings Services). - Box of Broadcasts:
Any UCL staff (or student) can now record TV and radio, and access a huge archive of recordings. Moodle editors can embed these within their course areas. - Copyright blog:
UCL's Copyright Support Officer Chris Holland writes succinct, accessible updates on legal developments. - Copyright for E-Learning:
This guide is designed to provide a brief introduction to the issues related to using material within online learning environments.
Tips for linking to and embedding content
- Link to websites - if you link to a website you are not contravening any copyright laws.
- Embed media hosted elsewhere - you're generally free to embed (though not download and host) any online content which explicitly invites you to share and/or embed. Examples: YouTube, SoundCloud, Prezi, &c. Otherwise, link to the resource where it is hosted.
- Find copyright-cleared images - use search.creativecommons.org to find creative commons images - Pixabay is a great resource available through this search tool.
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