There are five questions to ask when attempting to use materials. Follow the University of Ottawa's handy flowchart to help you navigate these questions (shared with permission).
The following copyright statement should be added to all Assiniboine created course materials:
Place the copyright statement in the best manner and location to reasonably and clearly notify that copyright subsists. The statement should be identifiable, but not distracting. For electronic documents, we recommend adding the copyright statement to the footer on the first page or slide. Avoid using watermarks as they can make a document difficult to read. Additionally, Screen readers cannot read watermarks.
The following copyright statement should be added to all copyright-protected materials used at Assiniboine which you have received permission to use (view the Copyrighted Materials section under Course Materials, below), and/or are allowed under Fair Dealing or other educational exemptions:
This copy has been supplied to you for personal research and study use in compliance with the Canadian Copyright Act, and/or with permission from the copyright owner. No further reproduction, distribution, or transmission is allowed, except as otherwise permitted by law.
Place the copyright statement in the best manner and location to reasonably and clearly notify that copyright subsists. The statement should be identifiable, but not distracting. For electronic documents, we recommend adding the copyright statement to the footer on the first page or slide. Avoid using watermarks as they can make a document difficult to read. Additionally, screen readers cannot read watermarks.
Educational institutions can transmit lessons to students in real time over the Internet or make a recording of a lesson available on-line. Students and schools who have made copies of lessons containing copyright-protected material are required to destroy them within 30 days after the students who are enrolled in the course receive their final evaluations.
Assiniboine pays for the use of many databases available through the Library. View the library's A to Z list of databases for what's available.
Articles from many paid research databases are able to be integrated into Moodle using permalinks.
Section 30.01 of 2012’s ‘Copyright Modernization Act’ allows for the use of copyright protected works in the online environment that matches how copyright protected works can be used in the physical classroom. It requires that instructors:
For Assiniboine instructors wanting to use videos on Zoom, this means:
Faculty and staff may have to request permission to use copyrighted materials from their owners in different circumstances, including those which fall outside of the realm of Fair Dealing. These permissions:
Faculty and staff may use television/news programs in the following ways:
Course packs consist of multiple items or pages from two or more documents which are then stapled or otherwise bundled together. Each one must have a file that includes:
They may be created for:
You're copying no more than 15% of a published work, or the copying is no more than 15% of a published work but is one of the following:
Don’t include in your course pack if any of the following are true:
Don't send copyrighted works via email unless you own the right to do so. If you want to share an e-article, webpage or other electronic resource with others, provide a link to the source in your email.
Alternate formats help provide equal access to information for everyone.
Some common alternate formats are:
(a) reproduce a literary, musical, artistic or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability;
(a.1) fix a performer’s performance of a literary, musical, artistic or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability;
(a.2) reproduce a sound recording, or a fixation of a performer’s performance referred to in paragraph (a.1), in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability;
(b) translate, adapt or reproduce in sign language a literary or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability;
(b.1) provide a person with a perceptual disability with, or provide such a person with access to, a work or other subject-matter to which any of paragraphs (a) to (b) applies, in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability, and do any other act that is necessary for that purpose; or
(c) perform in public a literary or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in sign language, either live or in a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual disability.
Individual artists and record companies worldwide mandate music licensing companies, such as Re:Sound, to license their work for public performance. This allows businesses and broadcasters to deal with a one-stop-shop that can grant them a license to play recorded music and ensure that the license fees are distributed fairly and accurately to artists and record companies.
Failure to obtain the required license(s) may result in legal action.
There are several tariffs that Re:Sound enforces. The use of music to accompany live events, tariff 5 A-G, sets out royalties to be paid to Re:Sound for the benefit of artists and record companies for the performance in public or the communication in public of published sound recordings at live events. These tariffs are enforceable through the court process for establishments that owe royalties but refuse to obtain the necessary license.
The tariff’s legal basis comes from the Copyright Act and the Copyright Board, which is a federal tribunal empowered to establish royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works.
Whenever Assiniboine has a special event – internal or external – at which music is played, it must be tracked and an event form filled out.
Owners of legal copies of computer programs may make a single reproduction of these programs in only two situations: