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Internet; World wide web

Material disseminated by means of the Internet or World Wide Web has copyright protection in the UK.

If you are creating content for a website

  • get permission in advance to use any material in which all rights are not owned either by you or by UEA
  • Think before putting up images of living people; they could be misused. NEVER PUT IMAGES OF CHILDREN ON A WEBSITE WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN
  • identify yourself as the copyright owner of your own works; identify UEA as the copyright owner of works created in the course of your employment by the University; identify other rights owners as appropriate
  • assert your moral rights to your own material; identify the moral rights of others where appropriate
  • in the case of high-value content, use a format that is not readily copied or manipulated by others, such as PDF
  • use low-resolutions for images, and watermark them
  • do not create the impression that content drawn from other sites is your own: do not incorporate content from other sites in your pages without attribution and make sure that
you have permission from the site owner, and
you are prepared to vouch for its authenticity
  • clearly identify sites to which you make links; do not use 'deep' html to mask the fact that you are taking visitors to another site
  • do not steal someone else's mark-up.

If you are browsing the Web

  • observe all copyright conditions posted on sites
  • download material for your personal use only; do not forward it to others (this is not only out of respect for copyright - you could be spreading something nasty)
  • do not extract content from websites or pages for distribution as teaching material, either in hard copy or networked, unless explicit permission has been given to do this; beware of unattributed material - it may have been pirated
  • do not 're-arrange' or edit someone else's website or pages, unless they have explicity invited you to do so.
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