Q. Can I use broadcasts, sound and video for teaching?

The university has an Educational Recording Agency (ERA) Licence which allows the recording of television and radio broadcasts for non-commercial educational use. Recordings can be made from all broadcasts but access to some broadcast services (such as pay TV services) may be restricted due to their terms and conditions.  All scheduled free-to-air radio and television broadcasts may be recorded for the purpose of making ERA recordings.

Content may also be accessed and downloaded from On-demand services such as BBC iPlayer, 4 on Demand, ITV Player, Demand 5 and Clic (S4C) in a similar way to personal private users. This applies also to podcasts. Users should check the terms and conditions of the service providers for detail.

Further licence details can be found online.

The recordings are to be used for the educational purposes of the university only, whether on university premises or conducting courses elsewhere. Off-air recordings should not be sold, lent or hired to anyone else or copied on their behalf. The ERA scheme stipulates that recordings can only be used on courses where students constitute full-time equivalents.

Recordings in either hard copy form or by electronic means may not be supplied to distance learning students outside the UK.

The university also subscribes to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), a service for UK universities which allows you to view and record TV or radio programmes from over 60 channels.

Care should be taken when using clips from YouTube as some of the content may have been uploaded to the site illegally.

For the purposes of illustration for instruction live streaming or playing a DVD directly in class is permitted. Uploading entire film DVDs to Canvas is not permitted. However the use of a clip for the purposes of illustration for instruction would be permitted as long as the copying is fair, for non-commercial purposes and sufficiently acknowledged. Access should be restricted to those students enrolled on the module the clip is required for.

Short extracts of commercial music may be used in teaching materials for the purposes of illustration for instruction or for criticism and review in the classroom but you would need the permission of the rights holder to include it in materials on Canvas.