Frequently Asked Questions

Commercial Activities in TAFE

Courses provided to commercial clients

1. Can a TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence to copy or communicate course materials, if the course materials are provided at cost when delivering a professional development course for a commercial client?

2. Can a TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence to copy or communicate course materials, when delivering a professional development course for a commercial client if a profit margin is placed on the course materials?

3. Does it make a difference if the professional development course for a commercial client is delivered at the TAFE campus or at an external location?

4. Does it make a difference if the participants of the professional development course for a commercial client are given a TAFE student identification number when they are enrolled in or participate in the course?

5. Can the materials that are copied or communicated under the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence for a professional development course for a commercial client be provided to the commercial client after the course is delivered?

Courses provided to overseas students

1. Can a TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence to copy or communicate class materials for TAFE students based in other countries, where course delivery takes place overseas?

2. Does it make a difference if the overseas students are taught by staff of the TAFE institute, or by local (overseas) teachers?

Hobby / non-accredited courses

1. Can a TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence in preparing course materials for ‘hobby courses’ and non-accredited courses?

Full paying students

1. A TAFE institute is running a course for 15 students. 12 of these students are paying a mainstream fee of $1,000 and 3 students are international students and paying full fees of $15,000 each. Can the TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence in preparing the course materials for all 15 students?

2. Can a TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence for a course which is fully costed (including profit margins and not subsidised by government), but where course materials are provided at cost and not sold or otherwise supplied for financial profit?

3. Can a TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Work Licence for a course which is fully costed (including profit margins and not subsidised by government), but where the course materials are provided at cost plus an administrative fee?

4. Can a TAFE institute rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence for a course which is fully costed (including profit margins and not subsidised by government), and the course materials have not been itemised in a way that allows the TAFE institute to demonstrate that the materials are provided at cost?

Use of course materials by someone else

1. Is a TAFE institute permitted to provide, for a fee, course materials which include content copied or communicated under the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence to:

(a) a TAFE institute in another jurisdiction; or

(b) a commercial entity

for the TAFE or commercial entity to use to deliver their own course?

2. Is a TAFE institute permitted to provide, for no fee, course materials, which include content copied or communicated under the Educational Statutory Licence to:

(a) a TAFE institute in another jurisdiction; or

(b) a commercial entity,

for the TAFE or commercial entity to use to deliver their own course?

Use of Creative Commons materials

1. If content is available under a ‘non-commercial only’ Creative Commons licence, does this allow a TAFE to use it in course materials for courses where students are charged based on Permitted Costs recovery basis only.

2. If content is available under a ‘non-commercial only’ Creative Commons licence, does this allow a TAFE to use it in course materials for courses that are funded by a commercial entity, but delivered by the TAFE for free or at cost to the commercial entity’s staff, TAFE students and non-TAFE students as vocational courses?

Partnerships

1. Where a TAFE and a private RTO share delivery of a course, can the TAFE rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence to copy and communicate content for inclusion in the course materials?

2. Where a TAFE offers vocational courses to school students, can the TAFE rely on the Statutory Text and Artistic Works Licence to copy and communicate content for inclusion in course materials?