Understanding Copyrights

Subject to your university’s intellectual property policies, where you (when not a university employee) have created any work that you intend to upload, you are the owner of the copyright in that work. Accordingly, unless copyright is transferred in writing by you to another party (eg. your university), you own and will be entitled to submit the work for sale.

Where the university might have copyright over any work is typically in the following examples:

• Where the work was a product of your participation in a research team whose members included university staff members;
• Where the work was created with the use of university resources,
• Where the work was created as a result of pre-existing intellectual property owned by the university; or
• Where the work was created as a result of funding provided or obtained by a university.

If it is brought to our attention that you have infringed another parties copyright or not complied with your university’s intellectual property policy or our Terms and Conditions, we will immediately take the work down from the site and issue you a warning. If you fail to comply with your university’s policy or our Terms and Conditions on two occasions, you will be banned from using the website.

Please ensure you understand your university’s intellectual property policy before uploading any work.