Copyright users

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Three women writing in notebooks at a table. They each have their head bowed over their work and there are several open books and notepads on the table.

Figure 6 Copyright holders

A copyright user is anyone who uses someone else’s original work. It’s easy to find material online, but it’s also important to ensure you have permission to use it as you intend which may include presenting it via a different media. Copyright protection exists in all media (and all territories) including the internet. Just because you find material online, you should not assume that you have the permission of the copyright owner to reuse it. You do have the right to read and look at it online though. Unless the rightsowner has specified permission on their work, you will need to seek permission to copy it and share it online or distribute it further.

A copyright user has the responsibility to:

• contact the copyright owner to ask permission to reuse their material, unless a permission exists on their work such as a Creative Commons licence to copy and share their work
• credit the original creator of the work in the form of an acknowledgement. This will state the name of the work you copied, the author, the url or page numbers (if applicable) and the date of the original publication, for example ‘extract from Sandar, S.Y (2019) ‘Yangon teashops in hot water’, Myanmar Times, 13 May. https://www.mmtimes.com/ news/ yangon-tea-shops-hot-water.html [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] (Accessed 14 May 2020).