Geospatial Information: Copyright Issues Professor George Cho Professor of Geoinformatics and the Law University of Canberra University of Silesia, Poland May 2016

Copyright © George Cho, May2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Copyright ‘Responsibilities’  Employer-employee relationships  Contract of service vs. contract for service (employee vs. consultant) Find what … oil and gas, minerals etc. Find how … Confidential information and secrecy  University and student relationships  Legislative responsibilities and regulations – legal deposit and Crown rights

Copyright © George Cho, May2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Suggested Copyright ‘Notices’  Laissez faire Permission is granted to freely copy (unmodified) this document in electronic form or in print if you are not selling it.  Free dissemination XXXXXX welcomes reproduction of any information in this publication, so long as credit is given and a copy of the reproduced material is sent to [our] office.  Protected This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process, or any other exclusive right exercised, without the permission of (name and address of copyright owner and the year in which the work is made).

Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Summary of Responsibilities (1)  Almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required.  Copyright is still infringed whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that.  Postings to the Internet are not granted to the public domain, and does not grant you any permission to do further.  Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain valuable social purposes. Ask yourself why you are republishing what you are posting and why you couldn't have just rewritten it in your own words.

Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Summary of Responsibilities (2)  Copyright is not lost because you don't defend it; that's a concept from trademark law.  Fan fiction and other work derived from copyrighted works is a copyright infringement.  Copyright law is mostly civil law. However, new laws are moving copyright infringement into the criminal realm.  Don't rationalize that you are helping the copyright holder; often it's not that hard to ask permission.  Posting is technically a copyright infringement, but revealing facts from you received is not.