Copyright Fair Dealing Decision Tool link
Copyright: Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic link
- FairDealingDecisionTool.ca
This online tool allows teachers to determine in a few clicks whether a specific use is fair dealing. - Fair Dealing Guidelines (colour poster)
This poster describes the rights, obligations, and limits of fair dealing in the classroom. - Teachers’ Use of “Consumables” (colour poster)
This poster describes the strict prohibition on copying, scanning, or printing materials intended for one-time use. - Copyright Matters!, 4th Edition
This booklet provides teachers with user-friendly advice on classroom activities that do not require copyright permission. - Copyright compliance checklists
This checklist outlines the things that principals and teachers need to do to be copyright compliant. - Copyright law impacts what teachers can copy for their students
This document explains the copyright rules governing the use of publicly available material on the Internet and fair dealing for educational purposes. - Teachers' use of "fair dealing" in the classroom
This document explains that short excerpts from published works, books, magazines, films, television programs, recordings, and music can be used for educational purposes. - Teachers' use of Internet materials in the classroom
This document explains that teachers and students can legally perform routine classroom activities using publicly available Internet material.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. What is the purpose of this booklet?
2. Why is copyright important?
3. What is fair dealing?
4. Does fair dealing permit the making of a digital copy from a print source?
5. Can teachers copy or post an entire musical score or does the 10 per cent limit in the Fair Dealing Guidelines apply?
6. Can a teacher copy for instruction?
7. Can a teacher copy materials intended for one-time use? (reproducibles)
8. Can a teacher copy for tests and examinations?
9. Can teachers and students use statutes, regulations, and court decisions?
10. What rights do students with perceptual disabilities have?
11. What rights do school libraries have?
12. Can teachers play a sound recording or turn on a radio for students to listen to, or turn on a
television for students to watch?
13. Can students perform a work protected by copyright, such as a play, on school premises?
14. Can music be performed without the copyright owner’s permission?
15. Can students and teachers use copyright-protected works to create new works?
16. Can teachers copy programs from radio or television?
17. Can teachers show an audiovisual work (such as a DVD or video) on school premises without infringing copyright? "Teachers can show audiovisual works purchased or rented from a rental store, a copy borrowed from the library, a copy borrowed from a friend, or a YouTube video."
18. Can teachers copy an audiovisual work at home and show it in the classroom?
19. Can lessons be streamed live to students or recorded and made available on-line for students at a time of their choosing?
20. Can teachers copy computer software for educational use?
21. Can teachers and students copy from the Internet?
22. Can teachers and students break digital locks to use copyright-protected materials they have the legal right to use?
23. Are student-created works protected by copyright?
24. Where can I get more information on copyright?