Legal Issues
In looking at the legal issues invovled in the creation of my web page, I have contravened none. As I created all the images myself, I am in no breach of copyright laws. The association's logo is not my design, but I did receive permission to use the logo from the association.
There were other legal issues I had to consider before submitting my page. Because there will be images of the girls included on the site, I would need permission from their parents to publish any photos on the site. This will come through the association providing handouts for the parents to sign, either allowing or denying the publication of photos of the daughters. So for the purposes of uploading my page to Curtin, I used images of my daughter, including the page's banner (which is subject to change once permissions are known). There is one photograph of my daughter warming up, which shows a couple of the other team members as well, because these girls are friends of my daughter and I know their parents, I was given verbal permission by the parent's of those girls to include this photo.
One question we were ask to contemplate was would we be in breach of any copyright laws if we were to put the curtin logo at the top of the web page for an assignment. After reading (and comprehending) as much as I could, I still found this issue to be a little blurred. The fair use policy states that a student can copy a little information for study purposes, it's difficult to know exactly what you can and can't use because most of the laws revolve around what teachers can and cannot use in a classroom situation. I think the safest thing to do would be not to use it, I mean, is there any need to use the Curtin logo for assignments? I say no. Err on the side of caution and you should be fine.
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