Digital copies of material copied under the Copyright Act Part VB (CAL) and Part VA (Screenrights) licences must have warning notices attached. The wording of the notices is prescribed in Regulations under the Copyright Act and may not be changed. There is nothing in the Regulations about precisely where the notice must be placed or how large it has to be. However, the notice must appear on the screen before or at the same time as the copied material. It is not acceptable to offer the notice as a click through link that gives the viewer the option to bypass it. The notice does not have to appear on a printout from the electronic version.
These notices should be used only with material copied in reliance on these parts of the Copyright Act. They should not be used with material copied with permission of the copyright owner or under any other blanket licence.
Notice for text or images (Part VB)
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Copyright Regulations 1969
WARNING
This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Queensland University of Technology pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act).
The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act.
Do not remove this notice
Notice for recordings of broadcasts (Part VA)
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Copyright Regulations 1969
WARNING
This material has been copied and communicated to you by or on behalf of Queensland University of Technology pursuant to Part VA of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act).
The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further copying or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright or performers’ protection under the Act.
Do not remove this notice.
The Part VA notice has three points of difference from the Part VB one. First, it refers to Part VA not VB. Secondly, it uses the word “copied” instead of “reproduced”. Thirdly, it refers to performers’ protection in addition to copyright protection.
The notices can be found in Schedule 11AC and Schedule 11 B of the Copyright Regulations 1969. A current version of the regulations is available online at ComLaw.
Tertiary Music Licence notice for music recordings
Physical copies (CD or DVD)
If you supply students with physical copies of recordings made under the Tertiary Music Licence, the recording or its packaging, labelling or file heading must carry:
(a) the following notice:
This recording has been made by QUT under the express terms of an educational licence between it, AMCOS, and ARIA, and may only be used as authorised by QUT pursuant to the terms of that licence. |
(b) the following information:
- The title of each musical work;
- The name of each composer, lyricist, and arranger of the musical work; and
- The artist or group name and the record company label.
If you communicate the recordings to students via online streaming, the file must be accompanied by:
(a) the following notice:
This recording has been made by QUT under the express terms of an educational licence between it, ARIA, AMCOS, APRA, and PPCA and may only be used as authorised by QUT pursuant to the terms of that licence. |
(b) the following information:
- The title of each musical work;
- The name of each composer, lyricist, and arranger of the musical work; and
- The artist or group name and the record company label.
The notice and credits can be displayed before the stream starts. Alternatively, a voice recording of them could be made and added to the file.
The notice is almost the same as the notice that must be put on a physical copy. The difference is the addition of APRA and PPCA to the licensors. This is because when you stream music, you are exercising the communication right in addition to the reproduction right. APRA controls the communication right for the musical composition and PPCA controls it for the sound recording.