Your Copyright Obligations

If you reproduce material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner, you may infringe copyright. This includes printing material, saving to disk, and copying a file from one disk to another. Reproducing part of a work may infringe copyright, if the part is important; it need not be a large part. A copyright owner is entitled to take legal action against a person who infringes his or her copyright.

You should check whether there are any special conditions for the material you are viewing, particularly if the material is on a CD-ROM or an on-line database. If you are viewing material on the Internet, you should check whether there is a statement about copyright on the site where the material is stored.

If you copy material for your research or study, you may not infringe copyright provided your copying is fair. In deciding whether your use is fair, you should take into account:

(a) the purpose and character of the dealing;
(b) the nature of the work or adaptation;
(c) the possibility of obtaining the work within a reasonable time at an ordinary commercial price;
(d) the effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the work; and
(e) where only part of the work or adaptation is copied - the amount and substantiality of the part copied taken in relation to the whole work or adaptation.

Ruyton Girls' School  does not authorise you to make infringing reproductions of copyright
material on this equipment. It is your responsibility to make sure that any reproductions you make do not infringe copyright.

If you need further information about your copyright obligations, please contact a member of the IRC staff.