Learning Commons patrons are required to comply with the requirements of the copyright act. The copyright act aims to protect the rights of authors and creators of original works, to ensure they are rewarded for their efforts, and have exclusive rights over when and where their works are used.

Broadly speaking students can print, photocopy, or download onto disk for educational purposes up to one chapter or 10% of a book, (whichever is the greater), and the whole or part of an article in any issue of a periodical or magazine or the whole or part of two or more articles in an issue of a periodical or  magazine, provided those articles relate to the same subject matter. Further details on copyright restrictions are displayed adjacent to the photocopiers, and computers and can be obtained from copyright publications within the Learning Commons' collection at Call No. 346.940482 COP.

Staff are referred to the "Copyright Guide" available from the Holmesglen Media Services Unit for  more details.

Within the restrictions of the copyright act, information may be printed out, down-loaded onto disk or photocopied.

Further information on copyright law can be obtained from the Australian Copyright Council's web site at: www.copyright.org.au