Intellectual Property Policy

This policy sets out how intellectual property works at TalentMed. It covers what we own, what we license from others, what you own as a student, and the rules for using our learning platform and course materials.

It applies to every student and every interaction with our learning platform, course materials, assessments, and branded content. It also applies to anyone else who accesses our content (for example, guests, trial users, or staff of a student’s employer).

Our learning materials represent years of work by subject-matter experts, instructional designers, and our academic team. We license specialist content from third parties, including classification systems and professional texts, on terms that do not allow unrestricted redistribution. Protecting this intellectual property is how we keep delivering up-to-date, high-quality courses at a price students can afford.

Students also create work as part of their assessments. You retain ownership of that work, and this policy sets out the limited ways we use it to support your learning and our quality assurance.

TalentMed owns

TalentMed owns the intellectual property in:

• All learning materials, course content, videos, audio, and interactive activities we produce
• Assessments, marking rubrics, case studies, and worked examples we develop
• The design, code, and configuration of our learning platform
• Our websites, marketing materials, and student-facing documents
• The TalentMed name, the TalentMed logo, and other branding

Third parties own

Some of the content in our courses is licensed from third parties, including:

• Classification systems such as ICD-10-AM, ACHI, and the Australian Coding Standards, published by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA)
• Training packages and units of competency, which are Commonwealth-owned and published on the National Register (training.gov.au)
• Textbooks, journal articles, and professional resources used under the education statutory licence (Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968) or under direct agreement with the publisher
• Stock images, icons, and fonts used under licences that limit use to TalentMed’s own materials
• Software and platform components underlying our learning management system

Third-party licensed content is marked where practical, and always remains the property of the original rights-holder. Our licences generally do not allow students to reproduce this content outside the course.

You own

You own the intellectual property in the original work you produce for your assessments. Submitting an assessment does not transfer ownership to TalentMed.

To deliver the course and meet our regulatory obligations, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use your submitted work for the purposes described in the “How we use your submitted work” section below. That licence continues after you complete or leave the course, so we can retain records as required by law.

While you are enrolled, we grant you a limited licence to use our course materials and learning platform. This licence is:

• Personal. The licence is for you only, tied to your student account.
• Non-transferable. You cannot share your account or access with anyone else.
• For study purposes only. You can read, view, download (where the platform allows), and print materials to support your own study.
• Time-limited. Your licence continues while you are enrolled. It ends when your enrolment ends, either by completion, withdrawal, or cancellation.

Reasonable personal copies (for example, printing a unit guide to read on paper, or saving notes to your own device) are allowed as part of your study. Bulk copying or archiving beyond what you need for your own learning is not.

Without our written permission, you must not:

• Reproduce, copy, republish, post, or display our course materials (in whole or in substantial part) outside the learning platform
• Share course materials with people who are not enrolled students, including on social media, WhatsApp, Telegram, file-sharing services, or any other public or semi-public channel
• Upload TalentMed course materials to AI tools or large-language-model services in a way that would allow them to be redistributed or used to train the model
• Resell, rent, or commercially exploit any part of our course materials or learning platform
• Use third-party licensed content outside the course (for example, reproducing classification codes, textbook extracts, or journal articles outside your study use with us)
• Remove or obscure copyright notices, author attributions, or licensing information
• Use the TalentMed name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation without our written consent
• Copy or scrape the learning platform or its content using automated tools, crawlers, or scrapers
• Attempt to reverse-engineer the learning platform or work around its access controls

These restrictions continue after your enrolment ends.

You own the intellectual property in the original assessment work you submit. We use your work under a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence for the following purposes:

• Assessment. Marking your submissions and making a competency judgement.
• Academic integrity. Checking your work for plagiarism, AI-generated content, and collusion.
• Validation. Including your work in our assessment validation activities, as required by Outcome Standard 1.5 of the Standards for RTOs 2025.
• Audit and regulatory review. Making your work available to ASQA or other authorised regulators on request.
• Record keeping. Retaining your submissions for at least two years after you complete the course, as required by Compliance Requirements Clause 10.
• Continuous improvement. Using de-identified examples to improve our assessment tools and training. We remove your name and any personal identifiers before using work for this purpose.

We do not publish, sell, or use your submitted work for marketing without your specific written consent. If we would like to use your work as a case study or graduate showcase, we ask you first.

Full detail on how we handle your personal information is in our Privacy Policy.

Several of our courses rely on content that we license from third parties. The most significant examples include:

• ICD-10-AM, ACHI, and Australian Coding Standards (used in HLT50321 Diploma of Clinical Coding and related content) are published by IHACPA and licensed to TalentMed. Students may use this content within the learning platform for their studies, but may not reproduce or distribute it externally.
• Training package materials are Commonwealth-owned and available through the National Register.
• Textbook chapters, journal articles, and professional publications are used under the education statutory licence in Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or under individual licence agreements.

When you download or print third-party licensed content for your own study, the original copyright notice must remain visible. You must not redistribute the content.

Your student account on our learning platform is personal to you. The account gives you access to your enrolment, course content, and your submitted work.

• Your login credentials. Keep them confidential. Do not share them with anyone, including family members, colleagues, or employers.
• No shared use. Nobody else may log in to your account, complete activities on your behalf, or submit assessments as you.
• Your responsibility. Activity on your account is treated as your own. If you think your account has been accessed without authorisation, tell us straight away.
• Device security. Log out when you finish, especially on shared or public devices.
• Account closure. We disable accounts when enrolments end. Downloaded materials remain subject to this policy after closure.

If you become aware of TalentMed course materials being reproduced, shared, or sold outside our learning platform, let us know. Include where you saw the material, a description of what was shared, and the date. Email support@talentmed.edu.au.

If you believe our content has infringed your copyright or another right, contact us at the same email with a description of the material, where it appears, and the basis of your claim. We will investigate promptly.

“TalentMed”, the TalentMed logo, “TalentHub”, and our other brand names and logos are trademarks of TalentMed Pty Ltd. You may refer to TalentMed in accurate and factual ways (for example, “I am studying HLT50321 with TalentMed” on your LinkedIn profile). You may not use our trademarks or branding in ways that suggest endorsement, partnership, or affiliation without our written consent.

Intellectual property breaches are assessed under our normal misconduct processes. Factors we consider include the nature of the breach, how much material was involved, whether it was a first or repeat breach, whether the breach was inadvertent or deliberate, and whether there was any commercial element.

Possible outcomes include:

• Educational response. Written guidance and an agreement about future conduct, typical for a first, minor, inadvertent breach (for example, sharing a unit guide with a colleague at work).
• Formal warning recorded on your student file.
• Conditions on your enrolment, such as restricted access to downloadable material or required supervised assessment.
• Suspension or cancellation of enrolment for serious or repeated breaches, without refund for the affected enrolment period.
• Revocation of a qualification issued on the basis of work that included unauthorised third-party content or was produced through breach of this policy.
• Reporting to rights-holders, regulators, or law enforcement where that is appropriate, including the original copyright owner for a third-party content breach.
• Civil action to recover losses and stop ongoing breach, particularly where material is being used commercially.

The process for considering a suspected breach follows the fairness and appeal rights in our Complaints and Appeals Policy and Student Code of Conduct.

When you complete, withdraw from, or are withdrawn from your course:

• Your access to the learning platform and the materials within it ends.
• The restrictions on reproducing, sharing, and using our course materials continue. They do not end when your enrolment ends.
• Any notes you made in your own words remain yours to keep and use. Extracts from our materials and third-party licensed content do not.
• The licence you granted us to use your submitted work for assessment, validation, audit, and record keeping continues for the required retention period.

If you want continued access to specific materials after your enrolment for legitimate professional reasons (for example, continuing as a clinical coder and wanting access to classification updates), talk to us. Options may be available through professional bodies or directly from the rights-holder.

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our materials, our third-party licences, or applicable law. Where a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will notify enrolled students in writing. The current version is always published here.

This policy operates within:

• Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), including the education statutory licence in Part VB
• Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth)
• Australian Consumer Law, in relation to any commercial arrangement with students
• Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), in relation to personal information within student work
• Standards for RTOs 2025, including Compliance Requirements Clause 10 (record keeping) and Clause 20 (compliance with laws)

• Student Code of Conduct
• Academic Integrity Policy
• Assessment Policy
• Privacy Policy
• Complaints and Appeals Policy
• Online Learning Guidelines
• Student Handbook

View the complete list of policies that apply to your enrolment.

IP and learning platform questions: support@talentmed.edu.au or 1300 737 781

Reporting suspected infringement: support@talentmed.edu.au

This policy is reviewed annually and whenever our third-party licences, learning platform, or applicable law change.

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