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AV and Music

Use of AV Material in teaching

Individual academic staff members are responsible for ensuring that all content presented in their digital teaching material is copyright compliant. Copyright law allows limited use of AV material in universities. Not all content that can be used in the classroom can be used in a video-streamed version of the classroom session.  The boundary for legitimate use of content is often clearly drawn between classroom use and online communication, such as via an iLearn subject site.

Classroom Use:

  • Commercially purchased or hired CDs, DVDs or videos may be played to students in the classroom.
  • You can show websites that include multimedia content in class.
  • You can show off-air recordings, including podcasts that originated as broadcasts, in class.

Online Communication:

  • The Part VB Warning Notice must be displayed whenever third party material is communicated, either in a PowerPoint program or video-streaming.
  • Not all content that can be used in class can be included in a lecture, or PowerPoint presentation made available for online communication.
  • Commercially purchased or hired AV material cannot be embedded in teaching items uploaded to the subject sites on iLearn. This content must be edited out of any video-stream.
  • Multimedia material from a website cannot be embedded into any university online communication. Provide a link for your students to this material via iLearn.
  • Generally, AV materials cannot be reproduced or communicated without the express permission of the copyright owner.
  • Always remember to fully acknowledge the source of the AV material. 

AV Material chart

Converting VHS to DVD

Copyright law does not allow re-formatting of bought or hired films, videotapes or DVDs by the University without the written permission of the copyright owner.

The exceptions to Copyright law that came into force in January 2007 enable private citizens to copy a videotape that they own on to DVD, for their own private use does not apply in the University setting. It is also important to note that using a privately copied DVD for University purposes on University equipment renders the DVD infringing.

As an educational institution, Bond University has very limited rights to copy AV material.

Bond University is a signatory to the Screenrights Licence which only covers "off-air" copying strictly from radio or television media. This includes cable and satellite transmissions and podcasts that originated as broadcasts. It does not cover live web-casts or moving images and other sounds sourced from the Internet. See the Television and Radio webpage for more information on “off-air” copying.

Like any business, we are obliged to purchase legal copies of audio-visual material to use for teaching purposes, or to place in our collections.

Using YouTube videos

  • YouTube videos can be shown in class for educational purposes as long as they are streamed directly from the YouTube site and the audience is restricted to the staff and students of Bond University.
  • YouTube videos can be embedded in iLearn, but care must be taken to ensure that the video is not an illegal copy of a copyright work. It must be a video that has been placed onto YouTube by the copyright holder of the material.
  • Do not download a YouTube video to show in class. It is not permitted to download, reproduce, copy or upload to iLearn or another website any YouTube content without first obtaining the permission of YouTube or the copyright holder of the material.

YouTube has Terms of Service that are considered a legally enforceable contract.  Always check the terms or conditions of use when accessing a website's content.

Music Resources

Explore these sites which allow the use of music under licences that authorise free music download and enable the artists to promote their music while protecting their rights.

digccMixter
Find out why one out of six uploads to digccMixter are used in a YouTube(tm) video, flickr moving image, podcast, compilation album and thousands of other places all over the web.

Guvera
Offers free and legal music downloads by getting advertisers involved.

Jamendo
All the music on Jamendo is available under one of the six Creative Commons licences.

Free Music Archive
This site offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licences.  See the track page to discover what you can and cannot do with each track.

ccMixter
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

opSound
Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.