Employers own copyright of the work of their employees, unless there is an agreement to the contrary.
At UC, the University has such an agreement with its staff (please see Section 2 of the UC Intellectual Property Policy (PDF).

Copyright of original work produced by UC staff is owned by the lecturer or by the University.  This material can be used in teaching, on LEARN, or in lecture recordings.  A statement asserting copyright over the content should be made accordingly.

• A person who commissions and agrees to pay for a particular work (book, photograph etc.), owns the copyright on that work, unless there is an agreement to the contrary. See paragraph 2.2 of the above policy.
• Copyright may be assigned by contract, e.g. by an author to a publisher.
• Copyright in unpublished works, e.g. theses, usually resides with the author.

The Tertiary Education Union (TEU) have a useful document about asserting your rights to be identified as an author: 'Asserting copyright and/or your right to be identified as author in TEI publications and other material' (see link below). 

Staff and student work can be added to the UC Research Repository. This is a full-text open-access archive.
For full guidance on what work can be added and how to upload please see the information provided on the Library Research guide Publish & Share: UC Research Repository page.

The Copyright Act also provides for the creator of an original work to assert his/her moral rights as an author which include the right to be identified as the author, the right to have works treated in a way that is not derogatory, the right not to have works falsely attributed, and the right to privacy in relation to photographs or films commissioned for private purposes.

Please notify us if you feel your copyright has been infringed in a moral way.

Contact Us

Email: copyright@canterbury.ac.nz

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