Copyright & Teaching Materials

When preparing teaching materials you need to be aware of copyright issues.  As soon as a work is created it is automatically protected by copyright without any need for registration: this applies to electronic as well as print material.  The Internet makes copying very easy but, unless there is an explicit statement to say otherwise, material there is covered by copyright.  Emailing material published on the Internet to colleagues or students or uploading it to SurreyLearn constitutes copying and unless you have permission you are infringing the rights of the copyright owner.

Permission may be granted in a number of ways.