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Assignment and licence
Creative Commons

Yes, you can. Each part of the presentation can be mentioned separately: copyright, Creative Commons or public domain. At the start or end of the presentation, the CC licence can be mentioned with the addition “full presentation unless otherwise stated” or a similar text. Make sure that each image with a different CC licence from the full presentation contains a link to the CC licence and that the correct source referencing is included if this is mandatory under the licence. If you don't like the appearance of this in your presentation, you may add this information in the notes section...

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Education
Images

Yes, if you are using the images to explain the educational content. However, a source reference to the applicable guide for the training course must be included, for example APA. If the images are for decorative purposes only, they may only be used with the rightsholder's permission. You may always use images that have been published under a Creative Commons licence or that are in the public domain. The copyright of the PowerPoint presentation as a whole is owned by the education institution, barring exceptions.

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Assignment and licence
Assignment

If as the author of a work, you assign all copyright to another party, this includes all future forms of exploitation. In that case, you can no longer decide what you do with your work.If you partially assigned your copyrights or granted a licence, it must at least be contractually established that the party to which you assigned the copyrights or granted a licence is also entitled to engage in any future forms of exploitation. In that case, how much leeway you have to decide what to do with your own work depends on such arrangements. Also check the copyright...

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Assignment and licence
Publisher

A contract reflects the arrangements between 2 parties. Publishers usually have a standard agreement for publishing your material, but that doesn't mean changes can't be made. Be clear about what you want and ask your publisher to include it in the contract. It will often be a matter of negotiation, but you are certainly not obliged to simply sign a standard agreement. SURF has developed an alternative to the publisher’s standard agreement: the licence to publish.The templates published by SURF are intended as examples and are made available for information purposes. Always consult a lawyer if you want to use...

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Research

Every researcher with an employment contract with a university of applied sciences institution follows the rules laid down in the Dutch Copyright Act and in the collective labour agreement for universities of applied sciences . Article 7 of the Dutch Copyright Act and Article E-7 of the collective labour agreement for for universities of applied sciences are clear: the rights belong to the employer (university of applied sciences) if the resources were created during the performance of the employment contract. The university, too, according to the Copyright Act and the collective labour agreement, is in principle entitled to copyright on...

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