Scenario 3.

Clearance
Guidance Notes
This work, excluding institutional logos, is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

The following resource was created for academic teaching staff within UK higher educational
institutions as a part of the Intellectual Property Rights For Educational Environments (IPR4EE) project of the
University College Falmouth. The IPR4EE project is funded by HEFCE and part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER
Phase II programme.

Key questions:
• Who owns the materials you produce for your teaching?

• What would happen if you left to go to another institution?

• How would you go about publishing your teaching materials?

• What considerations of copyright would you need to take into account?

Scenario 3: Issues to Consider.
This scenario has been created to raise the issues involved with publishing
promoting and releasing teaching materials. One should be aware of the various
issues that may be involved when attempting to publish textbooks or teaching
materials especially when using content sourced or produced by other people.

Many of these issues differ from institution to institution- again awareness of your
own institution’s position and the wider perspective is important as the variations can
cause major differences.

Ownership of resources:
- Is it covered by the contract of employment or conditions of service?
- Who would you ask to answer these questions?
- Are there different rights for different types of materials- lecture notes,
handouts, powerpoints, websites?
- Who owns the existing material you incorporated?

Are there any other rights/ issues you might need to be aware of, e.g. moral rights?

Would it matter if these resources were only going on the VLE/ institutional
repository?

Third party content:

- When publishing commercially one needs to be aware of content within
materials that may need replacing or clearing before it can be
published/released.
- Can you spot any content that is owned by someone else?
- Can you identify the resource/owner of the material?
- Have you obtained permission to use it in the way you want?

If you need to replace some of the content how would you go about finding
something suitable?
- Your librarian?
- Colleagues? Department?
- Institutional repository?
- Google? Flickr?
- Specialist image company, Getty Images for example?