Library

The lecturer as user or author

As a lecturer you can be both a user and an author of information. If you are the user, you may want to copy an article from a journal or a chapter from a book to your reader, or scan these and place them on Moodle. You are then subject to copyright laws as this is not your own work and the material is protected by copyright. Furthermore, specific higher education institutional rules apply. Stichting UvO and the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences have made agreements about this in the Reader Agreement.

Who holds the rights?

According to the Copyright Act, as the producer of the work, you retain the rights to that work. However, in the collective bargaining agreement for the higher vocational education sector 2021-2022, Article E-7, copyright law and industrial property, states that if the employee has produced work in the execution of his duties for the benefit of the employer, the employer maintains the right to that work. Contractual employment is required for this case to apply. If these requirements are met, copyright belongs to Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.

Audiovisual material

Take a look at Audiovisual if you would like to find out more about the use of audiovisual materials for teaching.