From faith to certainty: the changing face of managing copyright compliance in an Australian university

This paper describes how copyright compliance is managed in a large Australian university, with consideration of both the role the university library plays and also how copyright matters external to the library are managed. The paper looks at the changes in distribution technology and copyright legislation over the last decade, and examines the changes in the university's ability to disseminate teaching materials, as well as the changes in the requirements for managing the use of copyright material. This paper looks at the major issues for copyright compliance are managed across a university and considers how a university library, as an integral and contributing part of the university, needs to be involved in this management.
Libraries within educational institutions hold substantial collections of copyright material in the form of books, journals and audiovisual items, amongst other works. Increasingly, libraries provide electronic access to information resources [...]