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Practice Notes Overview

The DIA produces a comprehensive reference manual of Practice Notes to assist DIA designer members in their professional practice.

The Notes cover areas such as contracts, tendering, administration, the legal business environment, fees, salaries, intellectual property and much more.

A complete set of Professional Practice Notes is provided as a member benefit to MDIA members and above.

DIA Student, Graduate and Associate members receive a discipline-specific Study Set of Practice Notes.

Graduates and Associates also receive the Graduate Fee & Salary Practice Note.

Complete sets and individual DIA Practice Notes are available for purchase.

DIA membership benefit

The complete set of Professional Practice Notes and new and updated Notes are distributed as a membership benefit to full personal professional members of the DIA that is:

• Members (MDIA)
• Fellows (FDIA)

In general, Practice Notes and updates are not provided as a member benefit to

• Affiliates
• Educational Members
• Corporate Members and their representatives

However the Graduate Fee & Salary Note is provided to Educational and Corporate members, and personal members within an Educational or Corporate membership receive the Practice Notes that they are eligible for.

Use of Practice Notes by DIA members and purchasers

DIA members (Students, Associates, Members, Fellows) who receive DIA Practice Notes as part of their member benefits, and those who purchase the Notes directly from the DIA, are entitled to use the information contained in the Notes in accordance with the Copyright and Disclaimer statement included with the Notes and in accordance with the Australian Copyright Act.

In addition the Design Institute of Australia gives permission to those who have received the Notes as a member benefit or who have purchased the Notes directly from the DIA to

Use of Practice Notes by DIA members and purchasers

Members (Students, Associates, Members, Fellows) who receive Practice Notes as part of their member benefits, and those who purchase the Notes directly from the DIA, are entitled to use the information contained in the Notes in accordance with the Copyright and Disclaimer statement included with the Notes and in accordance with the Australian Copyright Act.

In addition the Design Institute of Australia gives permission to those who have received the Notes as a member benefit or who have purchased the Notes directly from the DIA to –

• Make limited copies for direct use in their professional practice of design.
• Use portions of Notes to construct documentation for direct use in their professional practice of design.

When using a Note in its entirety you are required to attribute ownership of the copyright to the Design Institute of Australia.

• Copyright - Design Institute of Australia.

When using portions of Notes to construct documentation you are required to indicate DIA copyright in the following manner

• Portions of this document are Copyright to the Design Institute of Australia.

These permissions specifically exclude the copying of DIA Practice Notes in part or whole for sale or publication except as normally allowed by the Copyright Act.

Use of Practice Notes by academic staff and tertiary institutions

Academic staff and tertiary institutions may use DIA Practice Notes in the teaching of their courses under the outlined conditions.

Complete sets, individual Practice Notes, discipline specific Study Sets and other packages of Notes are available for this purpose. Please contact the National Office for a current listing.

*Academic staff should be aware that it may be more cost- effective for students to join the DIA as Student members for the additional benefits they will receive.

The use of Practice Notes for teaching are governed by the following conditions-

• The lecturer or institution must own a copy of the Note/s being used purchased directly from the DIA or received from the DIA as a member benefit if they are a member.
• Portions of the Note or Notes may be quoted from by the teacher or used in instruction as an illustration of professional practice. In this situation students do not receive or require their own copy of the Note. The information being used should be attributed to the DIA.
• Where the Note or Notes are to be provided in full to the students or where a significant portion of a Note or Notes will be used in instructing the students the students must each own a copy of the Note/s being taught purchased directly from the DIA. (Student members of the DIA may already have received some Notes as a member benefit if they form part of their Student Set.)

Academic staff may not make copies of the Practice Notes for distribution to students or staff. All copies must be purchased from the DIA.