Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Media 2022 (i-COME 2022)

Postgraduate Students’ Practice on Usage of Copyrighted Images for Educational Works

Authors
Ani Munirah Mohamad1, *, Felicia Yong Yan Yan2, Nor Zuhaidah Mohamed Zain3, Norasikin Fabil4, Nor Ezdianie Omar5, Nurhazman Abdul Aziz6
1Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia
2Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Perak, Malaysia
3Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia
4Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
5Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
6UNITAR International University, Selangor, Malaysia
*Corresponding author. Email: animunirah@uum.edu.my
Corresponding Author
Ani Munirah Mohamad
Available Online 31 August 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_15How to use a DOI?
Keywords
postgraduate; copyright; awareness; quality education; SDG4
Abstract

The advent of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in various disciplines brings potential benefits to the users. In the context of education, postgraduate students can get hold of a wide variety of resources for their educational purposes, including images. Nevertheless, one major drawback to this opportunity is the potential for encroachment into the intellectual property rights of the legal owner of the images, primarily copyrighted images. Accordingly, this study embarked to explore the practice of postgraduate students in choosing online images for their educational works, as well as to examine the behavior of postgraduate students when confronted with copyrighted images for their educational works. Engaging upon purely qualitative methodology, a total of 40 students of higher learning institutions in Malaysia participated in an online survey containing open-ended questions. The data was analysed using computer-aided qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti version 22. The study found various resources used by the students to get image sources for their educational works, such as search engines, royalty-free images website and image editing websites. The study further found different attitudes by the students when confronted with copyrighted images, some would avoid using the images, while some others would still use the images in their educational works, with or without acknowledging the creators of the images. The implication of the study is better understanding of the postgraduate students’ practice on usage of copyrighted images for educational works. Hopefully the findings would contribute to the literature on students’ behaviour and intellectual property rights in the academic setting.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Media 2022 (i-COME 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 August 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_15
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_15How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Ani Munirah Mohamad
AU  - Felicia Yong Yan Yan
AU  - Nor Zuhaidah Mohamed Zain
AU  - Norasikin Fabil
AU  - Nor Ezdianie Omar
AU  - Nurhazman Abdul Aziz
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