Television and radio broadcasts may be received in class without any licence or permission.
Television and radio broadcasts may be recorded for the University's educational purposes. This is allowed under the educational statutory licence in Part VA of the Copyright Act, subject to a remuneration agreement with Screenrights, the audiovisual copyright collecting society. The licence applies to broadcasts from both free to air and pay services, including reception via cable and satellite. Podcasts of free-to-air television and radio broadcasts made available on the broadcaster's website (after the program has been broadcast) may also be copied under the statutory licence.
Copies of broadcasts intended for use for the educational purposes of the University must be labelled in the prescribed way. They must be marked with the name of the University, the fact that the copy was made under Part VA of the Copyright Act, the date on which the program was broadcast, and the date on which the copy was made (if this is different). If private copies of radio or television broadcasts are used for QUT purposes, and are not labelled in this way, they become infringing copies.
Copies may be shown in class, added to the Library collection, or made available online for access by QUT staff and students only. Digital copies must have a copyright warning notice attached when they are made available online or transmitted. The notice wording is available at Warning notices.
For further detail, consult the guideline TV and radio – Copying for Teaching and the IHSS web page on Audio, Video and Off-air recording.
To arrange off-air recordings of broadcasts, contact IHSS on 3138 3439.
To find recordings of broadcasts already held in the Library, use the keyword search facility in the Library catalogue with the term ‘off air’.