Screenrights - copyright licences - New Zealand

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Copying television and radio

With a Screenrights audiovisual copying licence, your staff can copy the best educational programmes for use in the classroom - as often as they like.

A Screenrights licence lets you tape anything from television (pay tv or free to air) or radio, without having to obtain permission from each of the rightsholders. There are no limits on the amount of a program you can copy nor on the number of copies you can make. There are also no constraints on the type of program you can copy nor on the channel from which you can make the copy.

Build your school's audiovisual collection

It's not just documentaries that schools are taping and keeping. There's current affairs, news, Maori programmes, language programmes, films and drama. In fact, anything broadcast on free to air and pay TV.

Find out what's educational on TV - the easy way

Each week your school will receive a free email TV guide with upcoming educational programmes that your staff can tape for use in the classroom. You'll find this a real time-saver - there's no need to scan the traditional TV guides because we've selected only educational programmes from all channels, and structured them into separate learning areas. It's an easy way to plan taping schedules.

Once you have the licence, simply email your name, phone and your school's name to schooltv@screenrights.org (with "subscribe" in the subject line), and the email guide will come to you weekly.

How to incorporate TV programmes in your teaching

There are over 450 free study guides and feature articles written by teachers to help you with lesson planning and inspire teaching ideas. The email TV guide also keeps you updated with what's new.

Schools covered under the Screenrights licence

Please contact us to check if your school has a licence.

Getting a Screenrights licence

The licence has been established under provisions in the New Zealand Copyright Act that provide schools with access to an important educational resource while ensuring that the rightsholders who make the programs educators want to use are paid for their work. Screenrights is a non-profit company that distributes all money it collects to the copyright owners in the programs you tape, after deducting its administrative overheads only.

For only $3.75 a student (less than the price of a movie ticket), your school can give each student unlimited access to a world of teaching resources. Your school can copy whatever it wants, whenever it wants. (The licence rate for schools is current to 30 June 2009.)

NZSTA form

The New Zealand Schools Trustees Association (STA), representing copyright associations, sends an invoice around May each year to all schools. Simply tick the Screenrights box, pay STA, and start taping. Alternatively you can download an application form here (52k)

Most of the time you don't even need to keep a record of what you've taped. Copying is monitored using statistical sampling. Schools selected for the sample are given advance notice and training.

Copying without a Screenrights licence

Your school may be liable for copyright infringement under the New Zealand Copyright Act if you've copied TV programmes for the classroom, unless you've obtained permission from all the relevant copyright owners.

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