Part of a group of IP rights – provides legal protection to creators/authors of works: (Books, journal articles, music, films etc.)
SA: Copyright Act and Regulations of 1978
- Legislative reform is required
- Copyright Amendment Bill 2017
Copyright is based on premise © owner has right to control how works are used. Some limited exceptions
A transactional licence is a one-off licence which requires institutions to obtain permissions up front for the specific reproduction of a specific item for a specific purpose. (UWC and CPUT)
A blanket licence is an umbrella licence issued to education institutions against payment of a fixed fee per FTEs (Full-time equivalent Student) (UCT and SU)
For research or personal use (Sect 12 Act:) single copy of reasonable portion
Copies made by academic depts (Reg 13)
- Per term, per course, not part of course pack
- No more than 3 short poems, articles, stories
- No more than 9 instances of above (effect must not conflict with normal exploitation of work)
By way of illustration: portion of literary/musical work (Sect 12 Act) (By way of example/clarification, not primary source of instruction)
Worst case scenario: Legal action
- Find your article on the library databases e.g. EbscoHost
- Select the article
- Select “export” in the right hand column
- Select “direct export in RIS format”
- Click “save”. The file is now saved as “delivery.ris”
- Open iKamva to your course resources
- Click on the “Add” dropdown button & select “Add citation list”
- Select “import citations”, and then click “browse” or “choose file” to go to your saved “delivery.ris” file. Select the file & click “import”. Your new article citation now appears in your resources.
- To test it (even off campus), click on the article title which should open to the extended bibliographic page of the article.
- Select the PDF full text to open the document
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