Photomedia - Part 9

Occupational Health and Safety, Copyrights and Moral Rights

My safety plan will include:

1. Being aware of and abiding by the potential hazards
   1. Setting up of equipment – cameras and computers;
   2. Photographing subjects (including taking 'selfies');
   3. Electrical; chemical; manual handling; light; ergonomic; psychological; confined spaces; online safety;
   4. Know what to do when an incident or accident occurs;
2. Abiding by copyrights, intellectual property and moral rights;
   1. Know what to do if one of those rights has been infringed upon (as what has happened to me when one of my pictures was treated in a 'derogatory' manner – see next page).
   2. Know how to attribute a picture (or anything else) correctly.

The Copyright Council of Australia¹ defines 'moral rights' as:

... the rights individual creators have in relation to copyright works or films they have created. Moral rights are separate from the “economic rights” of the copyright owner. The creator of a work, who holds moral rights, is not necessarily the owner of copyright in the work².

Creators have three moral rights.

These are the right:

 to be attributed (or credited) for their work;

 not to have their work falsely attributed; and

 not to have their work treated in a derogatory way.

1 Australian Copyright Council (2015): Find an Answer in http://www.copyright.org.au/acc_prod/ACC/Home/ACC/Home.aspx?hkey=24823bbe-5416-41b0-b9b1-0f5f6672fc31

2 Australian Copyright Council: Moral Right – What are Moral Rights? Virginia Morrison

INFORMATION SHEET G043v14 November 2014 (PDF DOWNLOAD) ( C:/Users/USER/Downloads/Moral%20Rights%20(G043v14)%20FINAL.pdf