A Guide to Copyright

According to the Copyright Act in Canada, students, instructors, and staff members reproducing copyright-protected works (a.k.a. fair dealing) for the purpose of research, private study, education, parody, satire, criticism, review, or news reporting do not infringe copyright.

However, when fair dealing for the purpose of criticism, review, or news reporting, the following need to be mentioned:

the source; and
if given in the source, the name of the
author, in the case of a work,
performer, in the case of a performer’s performance
maker, in the case of a sound recording, or
broadcaster, in the case of a communication signal.

Students, instructors, and staff members can take short excerpts from the library materials.

A short excerpt means:

Up to 10 per cent of a copyright-protected work including a literary work, musical score, sound recording, and an audiovisual work;
One chapter from a book;
A single article from a periodical;
An entire artistic work (including a painting, print, photograph, diagram, drawing, map, chart, and plan) from a copyright-protected work containing other artistic works;
An entire newspaper article or page;
An entire single poem or musical score from a copyright-protected work containing other poems or musical scores;
An entire entry from an encyclopedia, annotated bibliography, dictionary, or similar reference work.

However, copying or communicating multiple short excerpts from the same copyright-protected work with the intention of substantially copying or communicating the entire work is prohibited.