- Copyright: Basics and supportAs a University of Twente researcher, teacher or student, you will inevitably have to deal with copyrights. You might be infringing copyrights of other people’s work or transferring copyrights of your own without realizing it. This section covers when permission is and is not required to use someone else’s work, how to license your own work and the Easy Access agreement that allows the use of excerpts of copyrighted material for teaching. Copyright in the Netherlands Copyright is a legal right that arises the moment you create materials (e.g. works of literature, science or art). It gives you as the creator control over how the work is used and shared. Copyright is free of charge and applies internationally. It gives the creator two kinds of rights: Moral rights, which always belong to the creator (such as the right to be credited and to object to changes that could harm their reputation), and Exploitation rights, which cover the right to reuse, reproduce, or distribute the work and can be licensed or transferred
- Copyright: Protecting & licensing your own workWhen you create a work at the University of Twente, you might assume that you automatically hold the copyright. However, depending on your employment status, contractual agreements, or collaborative arrangements, the rights to your work may be held (in whole or in part) by another organisation or person. Below you will find guidance on copyright ownership, how to license your work, and how to apply this to shared or co-authored materials. Am I the copyright holder of my own work? As a University of Twente teacher or researcher: Anything you create as part of your job belongs to your employer (According to Article 7 of the Dutch Copyright Act). This means that teaching materials and similar works you create as part of your UT role belong to the University of Twente. There is one important exception: According to UT policy, UT authors retain the copyright to their scientific manuscripts, even though Article 7 Auteurswet would otherwise assign these rights to the university. The rules are clear for scientific publications
- Copyright: Using licensed materials from othersCopyright protects a work automatically, but this does not mean that the creator’s permission is always required to use their work. This page explains when to link to a source, how to correctly attribute the work you use, and the situations in which copyrighted material can be used without prior permission such as for personal study, citaatrecht, or educational excerpts under the Easy Access Agreement. It also explains what to do when none of these exceptions apply and permission from the copyright holder is required. Linking to copyrighted material Simply having access to a book, article, or online resource does not automatically grant the right to reproduce, distribute, or adapt it. Some materials have a read-only licence. At the University of Twente, we advocate in all cases: Linking to a work is preferred over making a copy! Embedding content is similar to linking in that it directs your audience to the original source without reproducing it. Both linking and embedding content are allowed if the work was placed
- Copyright: Using licensed materials in teachingUnder certain exceptions, it is permitted to use copyrighted materials on Canvas. One of these exceptions is due to the Easy Access Agreement, which governs the educational use of copyrighted materials. The University of Twente participates in the Easy Access (EA) Agreement along with 13 other Dutch Universities – with each university paying a percentage of a total lump sum according to the number of students that their university has. The agreement specifies when teachers are allowed to use an excerpt of a copyrighted work for educational purposes, without needing permission from the copyright holder represented by UvO (Uitgeversorganisatie voor Onderwijslicenties). What are the conditions for using EA? The right to use a copyrighted work for education (i.e. uploading it to Canvas) under the Easy Access agreement is subject to the following: The copyright holder of the excerpt needs to be represented by UvO. This includes not only Dutch publishers but also international publishers. It typically does not include