Copyright guidance
If your teaching materials (like videos, narrated PPTs, other online content) include assets (images, graphics, videos) you have not created yourself, you need to ensure all relevant copyright regulations are adhered to. The resources below are a good place to start.
Imperial College copyright guidance for lecturers (includes guidance for online teaching)
Imperial College copyright FAQ
See this page: Sources of images and media for resource collections for medical and scientific images and videos.
Copyright guidance for ICSM staff
- Adhere to common standards of academic integrity at all times. Anything that is not acceptable in an academic paper, copyright-wise, is not acceptable in online content. Standard anti-plagiarism and fair use rules apply. If in doubt, please speak to the Digital Learning Team or a Librarian.
- Lack of compliance with copyright standards is a serious reputational risk to the College and may result in disciplinary action.
- It is fine to use quotes (of reasonable length, in line with fair use standards) and some curated content available in the public domain (e.g. YouTube videos) as long as adequate attribution is provided.
- It is generally fine to link out from your resources to other webpages, e.g. YouTube, or embed such resources if the owner of the asset has allowed embedding.
- Ideally, use content that is available under Creative Commons licences. You can also utilise the Google image search functionality and select the relevant asset type (see image below) or use assets from free libraries (following the attribution rules a given library requires for their assets, see Sources of images and media).
Go to Tools > Usage Rights and select Creative Commons licences
