Australian Copyright Laws
Australian copyright law allows for universities to provide multiple paper copies of articles and book chapters (as long as the copied material does not constitute more than 10 percent of the total book content) free of charge for the purposes of students’ private study. Universities must keep a record of all materials copied for private study purposes and pay a fee for the copies to the nonprofit Copyright Agency Ltd. (CAL). This agency then distributes these monies to the authors and publishers of the copied works.
Recently this provision had been extended to digitized materials as long as they are made available only at a password-protected site. For more information see CAL’s Web site.
Reading Online, www.readingonline.org
From Turbill, J. “A Face-to-Face Graduate Class Goes Online: Challenges and Successes,” Posted July 2001
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