When using the Library's collections, and especially when making copies of information within them, you have obligations under New Zealand copyright law which you must respect. This applies to photocopies you make from books and print journals, but also to material you print from online resources.
You can read the Copyright Act 1994, as amended in full on the New Zealand Legislation website. You may also find the pamphlet "Copyright Guidelines for Research Students" to be a useful resource.
The following notice is displayed above all Library photocopiers.
Unless sections 43 or 71 of the Copyright Act 1994 apply to any copying of a work which you do, you could infringe the copyright in that work, and the copyright owner is entitled to bring an action for infringement of copyright against you personally.
In providing it, and in allowing you to use it, the University does not authorise you to use, and expressly forbids you from using, this photocopying machine to copy any work where such copying does not fall within sections 43 or 71 of the Copyright Act 1994.
Failure to observe this rule shall amount to misconduct warranting disciplinary action by the University against you.
Any copying you do must fall within one of the following provisions of the Copyright Act 1994:
Copying for Research or Private Study—Section 43
The Purpose of Copying—The copying you do must be for the sole purpose of research or private study.
Fair Dealing—The copying you do must be fair. In deciding what is fair:
The Nature of the Work Copied—You must take into account the nature and quality of what you copy in relation to the work as a whole.
Alternative Access to the Work—You must take into account whether you can obtain the work within a reasonable time by library or other loan or by purchase at an ordinary commercial price.
The Effect of the Copying on the Potential Market for, or Value of, the Work—You must not copy the work where the copying you do, taken together with the copying of the work by other students, will be detrimental to the potential market for, or value of, the work.
Amount Copied—You must not copy the whole work. Where you copy part of a work, you must take into account the amount and substantiality of the part copied taken in relation to the whole work. This means that you should take into account the amount and importance of what is copied in relation to the work as a whole. It is unlikely that you will be dealing fairly with a work if you copy a whole chapter of a work, a summary, or the whole or the greater part of the treatment of a particular topic in a work.
For Your Own Use—You must make the copy for your own research or your own private study. You must not make the copy in order to supply it to another person.
Number of Copies—You must not make more than one copy of the same part of a work on any one occasion.
Unpublished Works—You must not copy any part of an unpublished work unless you have the express permission of the owner or owners of copyright in such work.
Abstracts of Scientific or Technical Articles—Section 71
