educational copying
New Zealand
Screenrights agreements with New Zealand educational institutions give schools, universities and polytechnics, colleges and Wananga a comprehensive right to tape programmes from television and radio in exchange for the payment of an annual fee.
Screenrights is a non-profit company that distributes all money it collects to the producers, writers and other rightsholders in the programs you tape, after deducting its administrative overheads only.
The Screenrights licence has been established under provisions in the New Zealand Copyright Act that provide educators with access to an important educational resource while ensuring payment to the rightsholders who make the programmes teachers and academics want to use.
The Screenrights licence is versatile and flexible. You can:
- Copy any programme, anytime, anywhere
- Copy in any format - VHS, DVD, CD, PC
- Copy anything on free to air, pay TV or radio
- Copy entire programmes or excerpts
- Make copies of copies
- Show tapes in class or the library
- Keep copies as resources in your library
- Make up compilation tapes of material you have copied
Copying without a Screenrights licence
Under the New Zealand Copyright Act, educational institutions that don't have a Screenrights licence may infringe copyright if they copy any programmes covered by the agreement. Failure to get a Screenrights licence therefore means that you will miss out on a comprehensive right to tape from television and radio.
Audiovisual material being copied
The following chart represents the breakdown of audiovisual material being copied by New Zealand and Australian educational institutions in 2007.
More information
Kiwi - A Natural History, Natural History New Zealand
"Screenrights' licensing system allows us to copy freely off air and thereby bring up-to-date and relevant programs into all our classrooms to enrich the pedagogy and support the curriculum in all areas."
- Joanna Taylor Director, Information Services Presbyterian Ladies' College Sydney
