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Copyright Guide

This guide will help you to find out how copyright affects your study, research and work here at the University of Derby. Please note that information on these pages is for guidance only: it should not be construed as formal legal advice.

Copying images for teaching purposes

 

This section explains how it's possible to legally digitise images copied from journals and books for teaching / instructional purposes, such as in a Powerpoint presentation or a handout. Alternatively you can use other sources of images that are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, or available under a licence which allows free-use. See section on the left, Images and Copyright for further details.

There are two ways this can be done:

 

Copyright exception - Illustration for instruction

  •  This exception allows a limited amount of copying by a lecturer providing instruction or student receiving instruction, as long as:
    • the use is for non-commercial purposes,
    • the amount used was fair and reasonable to illustrate the point of instruction,
    • and accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement (unless impossible for reasons of practicality).

 

CLA licence - CLA HE Licence User Guidelines

It is possible to copy images from books and journals that are covered under our CLA Licence for educational purposes, such as in a presentation. The CLA HE Licence User Guidelines (see above link, p14) allow the following:

  • "preparing a copy of a whole-page visual image; or
  • extracting a part-page visual image, from a page that may also include text and other images (this process is often referred to as ‘disembedding’)."

  • digital copies of book covers are also included

Copying of Individual disembedded images and digital copies of book covers do not need to be reported to the CLA unlike digitised chapters of articles produced for Resource Lists by the Digitisation team. See section on the left CLA Licence: Resource Lists and Course Packs.

These digitally reproduced images would need to include a reference and be accompanied by the following text "Copied under the CLA licence - please refer to the full copyright notice". Either reproduce the Copyright Notice or link to the complete text provided below.

CLA Copyright Notice

Staff and students of the University of Derby are reminded that copyright subsists in this extract and the work from which it was taken.  

This Digital Copy has been made under the terms of a CLA licence which allows you to:

  • access and download a copy;
  • print out a copy;

This Digital Copy and any digital or printed copy supplied to or made by you under the terms of this Licence are for use in connection with this Course of Study. You may retain such copies after the end of the course, but strictly for your own personal use.

All copies (including electronic copies) shall include this Copyright Notice and shall be destroyed and/or deleted if and when required by the University of Derby.

Except as provided for by copyright law, no further copying, storage or distribution (including by e-mail) is permitted without the consent of the copyright holder.

The author (which term includes artists and other visual creators) has moral rights in the work and neither staff nor students may cause, or permit, the distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work, or any other derogatory treatment of it, which would be prejudicial to the honour or reputation of the author. 

Standalone images

Standalone images are those that are not part of another publication and will therefore need permission to use, unless they are licenced under a Creative Commons licence. See section on the left, Images and Copyright for sources of Creative Commons licenced images such as Flickr, Pixabay.