Copyright Guide: Unrestricted Copying

There are five situations where you can copy without limit.

Any amount can be copied for the purpose of setting examination questions, communicating the questions to the candidates or answering the questions.

You may copy any amount of a work (other than articles in periodical publications) for a course of education conducted by SP if you have carried out a reasonable investigation and you cannot obtain the work within a reasonable time at an ordinary commercial price. This may put you under the fair dealing defence. If you are in doubt as to whether you fall under this exception please contact the corporate lawyers.

Please retain the evidence of the investigations you made. The evidence should be filed as soon as possible in a file marked "Copyright - Commercially Unavailable Works Record" to be maintained by the Quality Assurance Manager of the respective schools/departments. The records have to be retained for 6 years.

You may copy any amount of a work for the purpose of a course of education provided:

A. You are the one conducting or undergoing the course of education; and
B. The copying is by means of a non-reprographic process.

"Reprographic process" means a process for making facsimile copies, or involving the use of an appliance for making multiple copies, e.g. a photocopying machine. It includes any copying by electronic means as well.

Non-reprographic is therefore interpreted to mean by hand.

You may copy any amount of a sound recording, film, broadcast, cable programme or recording of a protected performance or record a protected performance live, if you are (i) teaching or learning from another person how to make a film or a sound-track of a film, (ii) make a film or sound-track of a film for the purpose at (i), and (ii) copy or record in the course of making the film or sound-track.

You may copy any amount of a work if:

A. You accessed the work using the Internet;

B. When you accessed the work, it was generally accessible by the public free of charge using the Internet;

C. You cite the internet source from which the work was accessed and the date on which the source was accessed; and

D. You give sufficient acknowledgement of the work if and to the extent that the necessary information is available from the Internet source.

Please note that if you communicate the work, such communication must take place on a network operated or controlled by an educational institution (e.g. SP) and which has access limited to the students or staff of the institution.