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Copyright Act 1994

Acts permitted in relation to copyright works - Education

44A: Storing copies for educational purposes

You could also call this:

"Storing copies for school projects without breaking copyright rules"

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You can store a copy of a webpage for school without breaking copyright rules if you do it for a school project. You must show who wrote the work and where it came from, and say which school you are from and when you stored it. You must also only let people who are part of the project look at the stored work. If you store a work for school and it is no longer needed for the project, you must delete it after a reasonable time. If you do not delete it, you might be breaking copyright rules. An authenticated user is someone who is part of the project and can only look at the work after they have been verified. You must follow these rules to store copies of works for educational purposes. The rules are in place to help you use works for school projects while respecting the copyright owners. You can find more information about the rules in the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008.

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Part 3Acts permitted in relation to copyright works
Education

44AStoring copies for educational purposes

  1. An educational establishment does not infringe copyright in a work that is made available on a website or other electronic retrieval system by storing a copy of the page or pages in which the work appears if—

  2. the material is stored for an educational purpose; and
    1. the material—
      1. is displayed under a separate frame or identifier; and
        1. identifies the author (if known) and source of the work; and
          1. states the name of the educational establishment and the date on which the work was stored; and
          2. the material is restricted to use by authenticated users.

            1. Subsection (1) does not apply, and the educational establishment does infringe copyright in the work, if the educational establishment knowingly fails to delete the stored material within a reasonable time after the material becomes no longer relevant to the course of instruction for which it was stored.

            2. In subsection (1), authenticated user means a person who—

            3. is a participant in the course of instruction for which the material is stored; and
              1. can access the stored material only through a verification process that verifies that he or she is entitled to access the stored material.

                Notes
                • Section 44A: inserted, on , by section 26 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).