The action pack

This action pack is designed to assist you to fast track change in your school’s legal compliance with copyright law and to embark on a whole schools approach to more responsible information usage. It contains:

An Action Plan Checklist: a task checker to keep you progressing responsible information use planning in your school.

A Copyright Aware Presentation: a browser-based presentation that makes it easy for you to run a staff or School Council information session on the recent changes to copyright law. The presentation can be used as a whole resource or broken down into modules on separate issues.

An Article on Recent Copyright Changes: a suitable inclusion into the school newsletter or on the school intranet. Note that the Copyright Aware website will regularly update you on copyright law changes. This could be an ongoing source of new copy for school publications.

The Quickcopy Reference: a tool to help you as a busy professional work out what you can and can”t copy within Statutory Licence provisions of Part VB of the Copyright Act.

Knowing the Limits: a poster for display around reproduction technology to remind staff about maximum limits under the Statutory Licence provisions of Part VB of the Copyright Act.

An Assignment Copyright Checklist: a resource for teaching staff to use with students to reinforce the need to attribute sources in schoolwork.

The Copyright Awareness Test: a fast way to assess the currency of professional knowledge about copyright in your school.

Posters & Screen Savers: visual resources to reinforce responsible information use culture in your school.

Legal Notices: the updated legal notices required by the Copyright Act, including some in digital format to install on school computers.