All material on the internet such as text, graphics, recordings of spoken word, podcasts, video and music is protected by copyright in the same way as any other form of published material. The easiest approach is to avoid making copies and instead, give your students the web address of the material so they can access it themselves. The statutory education licence applies to all text and graphic works on the internet which is explained in Text and images.
Many openly available websites contain copyright notices such as '©XYZ Pty Ltd 2007 All rights reserved', or a statement saying that the content may be copied or saved for personal use only. Nevertheless, you can copy from the open web for educational purposes following the limits in the statutory licence, even if there is a copyright notice on the website that would otherwise make the copying an infringement.
Unfortunately, there are many websites and filesharing programs which make material available without permission of the copyright owners. You should not knowingly direct or link students to infringing copies. This can expose you and the University to allegations of 'authorising' copyright infringement. If you are suspicious about the legality of a website, seek further advice from the University Copyright Officer.
Use of resources found online are subject to any terms and conditions of the website. e.g.
YouTube.com
You may view or listen to content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may link to YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.
TED.com
Unless otherwise indicated, TED content is licensed via Creative Commons license (CC BY --NC --ND 4.0 International) for non-commercial purposes, but should only be distributed further through functionality offered from the website (i.e. link to it using the the embeddable player).
ABC.net.au
Content, e.g. podcasts, is provided for personal, non-commercial use only. Resources can be linked to, but as TUA/Think does not have a Screenrights licence, DO NOT play in class or to reproduce in BlackBoard/Canvas, unless explicit permission is obtained.
Also take particular care NOT to play web videos in class if the class is being recorded.
If you can access copyright material only by agreeing to accept certain terms and conditions which prevent certain types of uses, you should comply with those terms and conditions. For example, PowerPoint slides and other resources are often made available by publishers on textbook instructor companion sites. The person who registers with the publisher’s website to gain access to these instructor resources does so by agreeing to specified terms and conditions of use. These conditions usually require agreement to set the textbook as a prescribed text for a certain size student cohort who are expected to purchase the book. TUA is unable to agree to the setting of prescribed texts in this manner.
To use any content accessed from a website governed by click-to-agree terms and conditions, you must have explicit permission for use by TUA on BlackBoard, and if obtained, the permission should be lodged with the University Copyright Officer to copyright@torrens.edu.au