universities and other tertiary institutions
New Zealand
Copying television and radio
With a Screenrights audiovisual copying licence, your staff can copy the best educational programmes for use in teaching - as often as they like.
A Screenrights licence lets you record anything from television (pay tv or free to air) or radio, without having to obtain permission from each of the rightsholders. You can also download AV material legally available online, such as podcasts, vodcasts or programmes from the internet. The download of radio material from the internet is currently limited to material from Radio New Zealand National, Radio New Zealand AM Network, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio One, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio One, Radio Network's Newstalk ZB, Radio Network's Sport, Media Works Radio Live, Media Works B Sport, and the BBC World Service. Any radio material can be copied from a broadcast.
Use the latest technologies
A Screenrights licence lets you store, access and play recordings using the latest digital technologies and learning management systems such as Blackboard and Moodle.
Tertiary institutions covered under the Screenrights licence
The licence has been established under provisions in the New Zealand Copyright Act that provide tertiary institutions with access to an important educational resource while ensuring that the rightsholders who make the programmes educators want to use are paid for their work. Screenrights is a non-profit company that distributes all money it collects to the copyright owners in the programmes you record, after deducting its administrative overheads only.
All New Zealand universities have a Screenrights licence. Most polytechnics and some Wanangas and colleges also have a licence. Please contact us to check if your tertiary institution has a licence.
Build your library's audiovisual collection
Documentaries, movies, current affairs and news are all important educational tools. In fact, you can tape and keep anything broadcast on free-to-air, pay-TV and radio.
Find out what's educational on TV - the easy way
Each week your institution will receive a free email TV guide with upcoming educational programmes. You'll find this a real time-saver - there's no need to scan the traditional TV guides because we've selected only educational programmes for tertiary audiences, from all channels, and structured them into separate learning areas. It's an easy way to plan taping schedules.
Once you have the licence, simply email your name, phone and your institution's name to tvednz@screenrights.org (with "subscribe" in the subject line), and the email guide will come to you weekly.
Getting a Screenrights licence
For less than the price of a movie ticket per student per year, your tertiary institution can copy whatever it wants, whenever it wants, giving each student unlimited access to a world of teaching resources. (The licence rate for tertiary institutions current to 31 December 2010 is $5.25 per student.)
Most of the time you don't even need to keep a record of what you've recorded. Copying is monitored using statistical sampling. Tertiary institutions selected for the sample are given advance notice and training.
To apply for a Screenrights licence, please contact us.
Copying without a Screenrights licence
Your institution may be liable for copyright infringement under the New Zealand Copyright Act if you've copied TV programmes for the classroom, unless you've obtained permission from all the relevant copyright owners.
More information about the licence?
For a practical guide to copying and more, see also FAQs, or a summary in the Info Sheet - Universities, and the Info Sheet - Polytechnics, Wananga, Colleges.
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