Policy and protocol

These are guidelines for students who wish to take still or moving images of other students or their artwork on TLC premises. This also applies to using images of other staff and students or their work which have been acquired digitally.

Students must abide first and foremost by the class agreement and goals as stated in the Blue Book. We want to promote a happy safe environment for all our students. Not everyone will feel comfortable being filmed or photographed and this needs to be respected.
Students need to ask people if they can/film/photograph them and accept it if they decline.
Students must have permission to photograph artwork.
Students must have permission to reproduce images of artwork or text written by other staff and students, including those on the TLC website and the TLC blogs.
Students who are filming/photographing students and work should consider what they are going to do with the images. The best way to protect yourself if you want to reproduce and exhibit images with other people in them is to get a signed release form. Copying and reproducing someone else's work will involve having their written permission.
Students should understand that their work is protected by copyright law. It is a good idea to consider that sharing your work will help get it out into the world and that there are ways to do this and still retain some control of it. Many photo sharing websites and other spaces on the internet offer links through Creative Commons which allow you to share your work in different ways. See http://creativecommons.org/ for more information.

Copyright law in New Zealand

Copyright is an international form of protection for original copyright works (such as literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works). Countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention protect the rights of copyright owners from other countries in the same way they do for domestic copyright owners.

In New Zealand, copyright protection is a statutory right under the Copyright Act 1994. The Act provides for protection against unauthorised use of copyright works as soon as they are put into material form. It is not the information used in a work that is protected, but the way in which it is expressed by the author. Copyright gives authors (writers, artists, composers, etc.) the exclusive legal rights to:

copy the work
issue copies to the public
perform the work in public
show the work in public
broadcast the work or include it in a television programme
adapt the work by translation or dramatisation
transfer any such rights to another
defend their works from derogatory treatment
be identified as the author of the work

Copyright protects the rights of authors to receive remuneration for their work and encourages them to continue creating for the good of society, and more particularly for the advancement of learning.

Copying of all or part of a work without a licence, or without approval from the copyright owner, is an infringement of copyright unless there is a statutory exception to such infringement.

This information was sourced from http://copyright.co.nz.

Relevant information is also available from the Ministry of Economic Development at http://med.govt.nz/templates/StandardSummary____14644.aspx and the intellectual property office at http://iponz.govt.nz/pls/web/dbssiten.main.