LibGuides: Information for Staff: Social Media (s113P)

Social Media (s113P)

Social media such as Reddit, X (formerly Twitter), blogs, Facebook and Instagram are all free for people to join and share content. While they can be genuine sources of news and stories, they can also include misinformation and copyright infringing content.

Always evaluate the reliability and authenticity of the content.
Provide a link to the source page instead of copying any content.
Avoid infringing content and images. Re-posts and stock images are not copyrighted to the social media owners and shouldn't be copied and used in TAFE Queensland training material.
If you need stock images, use TAFE Queensland licensed Adobe Stock or Microsoft 365 Stock Images.
If you are copying any original and genuine content from social media for education, attribute as copied under s113P of the Copyright Act.
Limit the amount to under 10% and include the warning notice.
Note that you cannot rely on s113P to post any content to social media.

When material is used under s113P, a warning notice should be added to the resource preceding the content.

[WARNING]

This material has been copied [and communicated to you] in accordance with the statutory licence in section 113P of the Copyright Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act.

Do not remove this notice.

If there are multiple reproductions under s113P within a single resource, use the following warning notice once at the beginning to cover the whole resource.

[WARNING]

Some of this material has been copied [and communicated to you] in accordance with the statutory licence in section 113P of the Copyright Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act.

Do not remove this notice.

For text and images from social media, include as much of the following as possible:

Author name or account name
Title of the post or image
Platform name
Date of the post
Full URL
Accessed date

Attribute as:

Copied under s113P [insert author, title, date of post, platform name, URL. Accessed date]

The attribution should be placed wherever practicable, eg. below the content, in the footer of each of the relevant page or as an introduction/end credits page.

Image from Facebook

Koala Bill at Australia Zoo Hospital

Copied under s113P. Wildlife Warriors, Facebook, posted 13 Dec. 2023. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=752794150223844&set=a.630351805801413 Accessed 14 Dec. 2023.

Content from a blog

"deep understanding — new ways of thinking about ideas borne of authentic collaborative inquiry — are far less likely to vanish. Students may be unable to recall the six stages of cell division, or the definition of a participle, or the approved steps for doing long division. But they’re probably not going to forget how to set up an experiment to test their own hypothesis (if they had the chance to do science)"

Copied under s113P. Pay attention, class: here come more facts for you to forget by Alfie Kohn. Posted on 20 April 2023. https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/fuhgeddaboudit/. Accessed 14 Dec. 2023.