Find information on copyright and how it works at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) Te Pukenga on this page.
What is copyright?
Find out what you can legally copy or re-use under the Copyright Act. All published books, newspapers, journals, and Internet content (including YouTube videos) fall under copyright law.
MIT pays a license with Copyright Licensing New Zealand to allow you to copy:
• up to 10% or one chapter of a book, whichever is greater (you cannot copy a whole book)
• one article, or part of one article, from a periodical publication, or additional articles from the same periodical publication if they are on the same subject.
To avoid copyright issues?
Get permission from the owner of the information e.g. for company or organisation logos
Search for re-usable images and information
Download books, videos, newspaper and journal articles from our library databases
