Copyrights

If you use copyrighted material, you have to ask for the permission to use the material from the content creator. This material includes, for example, articles, presentations, recordings, pictures, tables and audiovisual recordings. Copyrighted material can be used on the basis of an “exception rule”. Restrictive regulation in the copyright laws, for example citation rights, give the right to use copyrighted material in certain ways. Using the material this way, however, is often extremely limited.

Examples of allowed use:

• Disseminate information in your own words from scientific publications or other works created by others.
• Citating published works when mentioning the reference. Citating must be done in good conscience. Simply adding visual or content value to your own work is not sufficient.
• Linking material on the internet (such as an article) to your own material, as long as you set the link to open in a new window.
• Using Creative commons –open source material, or pictures found from different picture banks (such as https://www.freeimages.co.uk/) in your own material. You must respect the license conditions and make the appropriate references.

The copying license by Kopiosto

• The personnel and the students of the university may scan printed press and copy text and pictures from public web pages as permitted by the Kopiosto permission. This material can be used while teaching, researching and in theses and project works.
  • Kopiosto recommends that a stamp is applied to the material and the respective sites before using the material in teaching (this is not mandatory)
  • scanned or material copied from the internet can be used in a course, but only if the material is distributed through the internal network and the material is limited to the course’s personnel only. For this reason, it is often easier to share material from open sources
• The copying license does not permit
  • Using lyrics, notes, work-related books, plays, music, audiovisual material or works that the creator has forbidden to use
  • The copying license does not cover situations or material, to which the university has a separate permission or license of use
  • Material that falls under the permit of digital permission are not allowed to attach to a database or a databank
  • Copied material cannot be modified or transferred

More detailed instructions about the copying license can be found on Kopiosto’s web page:

Using the library’s material as study material:

Examples of forbidden uses

• sharing copyrighted material (music, for example)
  • putting recordings to Moodle of musical plays that are related to the teaching require a permission from the performer and the holder of the rights

Enclosed environment, such as Moodle, does not remove the responsibilities defined in the copyright laws.

Material produced by students

The teacher has the right to the material produced by the students in preparation of the course the students are attending. The material cannot be used after the course has ended or with any other course, unless agreed otherwise.

Taking copyright laws into account while producing education material is the responsibility of the person who creates the material (ie. the teacher or the student).