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Copyright

Thinking about copyright early during writing your thesis or research can help you avoid time-consuming issues later.  

Under the Copyright Act 1968 individuals may copy materials for limited purposes, including research and study, criticism and review, and parody and satire.

Researchers and students may copy limited amounts of work for their own research and study needs, including when: 

  • Preparing an article, book chapter or conference presentation

  • Copying for general reading or current awareness 

  • Copying material for the process of conducting research or preparing an assignment ofr thesis. 

Check the Library’s Copyright page for more information. 

In this video the University of Newcastle Copyright Advisor answers question related to copyright for researchers.

If you are including material (images, graphs, tables, large quotes, creative works, data) that is not your own (i.e., third-party material) in a published research output you are usually required to ask for permission from the copyright owner or to include a statement giving credit.

See Copyright and Creative Commons Licence in the 'Publish and share' module of this Toolkit or more information on copyright requirements.

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